Black Holes News
May 21, 2025
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May 21, 2025 Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation. Their results show that this radiation dampens the wounded galaxy's ability to form new ...
May 19, 2025 Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with another galaxy, or have been tossed out of the core ...
May 14, 2025 A new study achieves unprecedented accuracy in modelling extreme cosmic events like black hole and neutron star collisions by calculating the fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order, crucial for interpreting gravitational wave data from current and ...
May 12, 2025 The universe is decaying much faster than thought. This is shown by calculations of scientists on the so-called Hawking radiation. They calculate that the last stellar remnants take about 10^78 years (a 1 with 78 zeros) to perish. That is much ...
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May 12, 2025 Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational ...
May 8, 2025 In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A ...
May 6, 2025 Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other ...
May 5, 2025 Researchers have developed a new quantum theory of gravity which describes gravity in a way that's compatible with the Standard Model of particle ...
Apr. 9, 2025 Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...
Apr. 11, 2025 Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...
Mar. 12, 2025 New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our ...
Feb. 28, 2025 Physicists provide a viable and testable explanation for how UHECRs are ...
Feb. 19, 2025 Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and ...
Feb. 18, 2025 Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of ...
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Feb. 13, 2025 Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e. points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying ...
Jan. 29, 2025 Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a significant impact on the interpretation of the ...
Jan. 16, 2025 In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At ...
Jan. 15, 2025 Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...
Jan. 13, 2025 The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies ...
Jan. 13, 2025 Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the black hole's ...
Dec. 18, 2024 Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for ...
Dec. 17, 2024 After taking the first images of black holes, the groundbreaking Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that ...
Dec. 17, 2024 An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...
Dec. 13, 2024 The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...
Dec. 9, 2024 Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be ...
Dec. 2, 2024 A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and that we should start looking within rocks and old ...
Nov. 13, 2024 Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the ...
Nov. 7, 2024 Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, ...
Nov. 4, 2024 The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...
Nov. 4, 2024 Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the ...
Oct. 30, 2024 Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black ...
Oct. 28, 2024 Researchers have pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory to show there's new knotty science to discover around black ...
Oct. 23, 2024 A surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding our understanding of black holes, the objects they can host, and the way they ...
Oct. 17, 2024 Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed ...
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- Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
- X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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- Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black Hole and Its Jets
- Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole
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- Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars
- Astronomers Discover the Fastest-Feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe
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- A Wobble from Mars Could Be Sign of Dark Matter
- More Black Holes Than Expected in the Early Universe
- Black Hole Pairs May Unveil New Particles
Monday, September 16, 2024
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Thursday, August 29, 2024
- Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
- Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Nature of Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks
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- Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions
- Bizarre 'garden Sprinkler-Like' Jet Is Spotted Shooting out of Neutron Star
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- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
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- Astronomers Observe Elusive Stellar Light Surrounding Ancient Quasars
- Hubble Views a Galaxy With a Voracious Black Hole
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- Persistent Hiccups in a Far-Off Galaxy Draw Astronomers to New Black Hole Behavior
- Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way's Central Black Hole
- 'Cosmic Cannibals' Expel Jets Into Space at 40 Percent the Speed of Light
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- Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
- Brightest and Fastest-Growing: Astronomers Identify Record-Breaking Quasar
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- 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
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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