Black Holes News
April 26, 2024
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Apr. 22, 2024 Based on radio telescope data and models of black hole physics, a team has used neural networks to reconstruct a 3D image that shows how explosive flare-ups in the disk of gas around our supermassive ...
Apr. 16, 2024 Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it imposes an odd 'wobbling' motion on the companion ...
Apr. 5, 2024 A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and testing their theory in chemical ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Densely packed, fast-moving stars at the Milky Way's center can collide with each other. New research uses simulations to explore the outcomes of these collisions. Some collisions are more like 'violent high fives' while others are full-on ...
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Mar. 27, 2024 Astronomers have measured the speed of fast-moving jets in space, crucial to star formation and the distribution of elements needed for life. The jets of matter, expelled by stars deemed 'cosmic ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly ...
Mar. 27, 2024 A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Astronomers have concluded that an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, are not young as previously thought but rather lead relatively short ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Scientists have created a giant quantum vortex to mimic a black hole in superfluid helium that has allowed them to see in greater detail how analogue black holes behave and interact with their ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true nature of dark matter, according to ...
Mar. 5, 2024 It takes more than a galaxy merger to make a black hole grow and new stars form: machine learning shows cold gas is needed too to initiate rapid ...
Mar. 4, 2024 Looking deeply into space and time, astronomers have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a ...
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Feb. 22, 2024 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova. The supernova, known as SN 1987A, was a ...
Feb. 22, 2024 Astronomers have characterized a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies ...
Feb. 21, 2024 The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football, according to a new study. That ...
Feb. 15, 2024 If gravitational condensate stars (or gravastars) actually existed, they would look similar to black holes to a distant observer. Two theoretical physicists have now found a new solution to Albert ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Black holes not only existed at the dawn of time, they birthed new stars and supercharged galaxy formation, a new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope data ...
Jan. 29, 2024 Scientists have identified 18 new tidal disruption events (TDEs) -- extreme instances when a nearby star is tidally drawn into a black hole and ripped to shreds. The detections more than double the ...
Jan. 25, 2024 A new study describes the best method to improve images obtained by the James Webb Science Telescope (JWST) using a mathematical approach called ...
Jan. 25, 2024 The microquasar SS 433 stands out as one of the most intriguing objects within our Milky Way. A pair of oppositely directed beams of plasma ('jets') spirals away perpendicularly from the ...
Jan. 18, 2024 An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ...
Jan. 18, 2024 A new study is a significant breakthrough in understanding Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) involving supermassive black holes. The new simulations accurately replicate the entire sequence of a TDE ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is 'eating' its host galaxy to ...
Jan. 16, 2024 Astronomers have created the most sensitive radio image ever of a globular cluster, an ancient ball of tightly-packed ...
Jan. 12, 2024 Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution of ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Astrophysicists have confirmed the accuracy of an analytical model that can unlock key information about supermassive black holes and the stars they ...
Dec. 4, 2023 An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international team of ...
Dec. 4, 2023 A star near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy originated outside of the Galaxy according to a new study. This is the first time a star of extragalactic origin has been ...
Dec. 4, 2023 The prevailing assumption has been that Einstein's theory of gravity must be modified, or 'quantized', in order to fit within quantum theory. This is the approach of two leading ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Cutting-edge computer simulations combined with theoretical calculations are helping astronomers better understand the origin of some of the universe's most energetic and mysterious light shows ...
Nov. 28, 2023 Scientists have announced the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray ...
Nov. 14, 2023 The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost everything, it turns out. Astrophysicists have now determined conclusively that ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- Brightest and Fastest-Growing: Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Monday, January 29, 2024
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
- Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? MeerKAT Uncovers a Mysterious Object in Milky Way
- Origin of Intense Light in Supermassive Black Holes and Tidal Disruption Events Revealed
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Monday, December 4, 2023
- Interpreting the Afterglow of a Black Hole's Breakfast
- 10-Billion-Year, 50,000-Light-Year Journey to Black Hole
- New Theory Unites Einstein's Gravity With Quantum Mechanics
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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Thursday, July 6, 2023
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
- Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web
- Unveiling the Origins of Merging Black Holes in Galaxies Like Our Own
- Gravitational Waves from Colossal Black Holes Found Using 'cosmic Clocks'
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
Friday, June 2, 2023
- Eventually Everything Will Evaporate, Not Only Black Holes
- Mysterious Dashes Revealed in Milky Way's Center
Monday, May 29, 2023
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Friday, May 19, 2023
Friday, May 12, 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023
- Hidden Supermassive Black Holes Brought to Life by Galaxies on Collision Course
- Astronomers Find No Young Binary Stars Near Milky Way's Black Hole
Friday, April 28, 2023
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
- Astronomers Solve the 60-Year Mystery of Quasars -- The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
- Medium-Sized Black Holes Eat Stars Like Messy Toddlers
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Thursday, April 13, 2023
- A Sharper Look at the M87 Black Hole
- M87 in 3D: New View of Galaxy Helps Pin Down Mass of the Black Hole at Its Core
Monday, April 10, 2023
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Friday, February 24, 2023
- A Mysterious Object Is Being Dragged Into the Supermassive Black Hole at the Milky Way's Center
- New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive Black Holes
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Friday, January 13, 2023
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Monday, January 9, 2023
- Scientists Find Pair of Black Holes Dining Together in Nearby Galaxy Merger
- NASA's Retired Compton Mission Reveals Superheavy Neutron Stars
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Friday, December 9, 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
- Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole
- Mysteriously Bright Flash Is a Black Hole Jet Pointing Straight Toward Earth, Astronomers Say
Monday, November 28, 2022
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Friday, November 18, 2022
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Friday, November 11, 2022
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
Monday, October 31, 2022
Friday, October 14, 2022
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
- 'Wobbling Black Hole' Most Extreme Example Ever Detected
- Black Hole Spews out Material Years After Shredding Star
- Black Hole Discovered Firing Jets at Neighboring Galaxy
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Monday, August 29, 2022
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
- ESO Telescope Images a Spectacular Cosmic Dance
- Black Hole Collisions Could Help Us Measure How Fast the Universe Is Expanding