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Beyond the Brink: New NASA Black Hole Visualization Plunges Viewers Into the Event Horizon

Francis Reddy, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center — Fri, 10 May 2024 08:20:40 +0000

NASA’s new black hole visualizations simulate the dramatic effects of crossing the event horizon, highlighting the severe distortions in space-time and the eventual spaghettification near...

Supermassive Spectacle: Hubble Captures a Galaxy With a Voracious Black Hole

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center — Thu, 09 May 2024 23:17:43 +0000

Hubble’s image of NGC 4951 highlights its bright spiral arms and active galactic nucleus, providing critical data for studying galaxy evolution. Bright, starry spiral arms...

Einstein’s Legacy Proven Again With Monumental Black Hole Discovery

Tel-Aviv University — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 07:40:49 +0000

Researchers utilizing the European Gaia spacecraft have discovered a black hole in a binary system, located 1,500 light-years away and weighing 33 times the mass...

Cosmic Cannons: Astrophysicists Shed New Light on Black Hole Jets

Chinese Academy of Sciences — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:12:33 +0000

Black holes are fascinating cosmic entities characterized by gravitational pulls so intense that not even light can escape once it crosses into their event horizons....

Peering Into the Abyss: AI and Physics Unite to Unveil a Black Hole Flare in 3D

California Institute of Technology — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:00:01 +0000

Using AI and ALMA data, scientists create a groundbreaking 3D video of flares around our galaxy’s central black hole, offering new insights into its dynamic...

Record-Breaking Black Hole Discovered Just 2000 Light-Years From Earth

European Southern Observatory (ESO) — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:49:37 +0000

Astronomers have identified a stellar black hole in the Milky Way with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, located only 2000 light-years away....

Scientists Surprised by Sleeping Giant – Most Massive Stellar Black Hole in Our Galaxy Found Lurking Nearby

European Space Agency (ESA) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:02:03 +0000

ESA’s Gaia mission has uncovered a massive dormant black hole in our galaxy, revealing new insights into the formation of stellar-mass black holes and setting...

Quantum Scrambling: Chemical Reactions Rivaling Black Holes

Rice University — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:17:36 +0000

Research from Rice University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has shown that molecules can scramble quantum information as effectively as black holes, with implications...

Zombie Stars at the Milky Way’s Core Defy Time

Amanda Morris, Northwestern University — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:14:11 +0000

New research traces the fates of stars living near the Milky Way’s central black hole. Despite their ancient ages, some stars orbiting the Milky Way’s...

Defying Expectations: The Quasar That’s Rewriting Galactic Rules

Chandra X-ray Center — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 07:17:14 +0000

NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole Astronomers have revealed that a brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although it is...

Black Hole “Hiccups” – Astronomers Stunned by Periodic Outbursts in Far-Off Galaxy

Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:33:54 +0000

Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas. At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive...

Peering Into the Magnetic Soul of the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

European Southern Observatory (ESO) — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:48:28 +0000

The Event Horizon Telescope has captured an image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light, revealing strong, organized magnetic fields similar to...

Cosmic Mysteries Unveiled: The Short, Brilliant Lives of CSOs

Whitney Clavin, California Institute of Technology — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:55:50 +0000

Radio observations of Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs) provide new clues about their origins. A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact...

Defying Expectations: NASA’s Chandra Uncovers a Quasar’s Surprising Galactic Impact

Chandra X-ray Observatory — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:47:18 +0000

Research reveals the quasar H1821+643, despite its intense activity, has a minimal effect on its host galaxy, overturning expectations about the role of quasars. Astronomers...

Quasar Conundrum: Brilliant Supermassive Black Hole Defies Expectations

Pennsylvania State University — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:24:34 +0000

The quasar produces high levels of radiation and powerful jets, but it has less influence on its surroundings than expected. Astronomers have revealed that a...

Quantum Tornado Unlocks Mysteries of Black Holes

University of Nottingham — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:33:20 +0000

A team of scientists has successfully mimicked black hole conditions by creating a quantum vortex in superfluid helium, shedding light on gravitational interactions and quantum...

Webb’s “Astonishing Discovery” of Huge Black Holes in Early Universe – “Thought To Be Impossible”

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, JILA — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:17:50 +0000

The James Webb Space Telescope’s discovery of early galaxies with massive black holes challenges traditional galaxy formation theories, proposing a synchronous development of black holes...

Unlocking the Quasar Code: Revolutionary Insights From 3C 273

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, JILA — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 18:15:33 +0000

Researchers analyzed emission data from quasar 3C 273 using two theoretical models, revealing complexities in understanding quasar behavior and the mechanics of supermassive black holes....

Infant Giants: Webb Unveils the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Institute of Science and Technology Austria — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 18:01:46 +0000

The James Webb Space Telescope makes one of the most unexpected findings within its first year of service: A high number of faint little red...

Unmasking the Universe With AI: How Machine Learning Unravels Black Hole Mysteries

University of Bath — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:35:48 +0000

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...

Astronomers Unravel the Mystery of the Universe’s Heaviest Black Hole Binary

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:22:35 +0000

Data from Gemini North provide possible explanation for supermassive binary black hole’s halted merger. Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, a team of...

Warping the Cosmos, the Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Space Into a Football

Penn State University — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:33:27 +0000

Researchers revealed that the black hole’s spinning speed could provide an ‘incredibly powerful kick’ to surrounding matter. The supermassive black hole in the center of...

When Giants Collide: Unraveling the Mysteries of Supermassive Black Holes

Rochester Institute of Technology — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:25:08 +0000

Manuela Campanelli to lead research team studying electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes. Rochester Institute of Technology scientists will be the lead researchers on...

Warp Speed Ahead: How Our Galaxy’s Black Hole Bends Spacetime

Chandra X-ray Center — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:57:17 +0000

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, spins at a rate warping its surrounding spacetime, influencing galactic dynamics and potentially affecting...