Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter …
1 day ago · As matter falls into a black hole, it also circles it like water spiraling down a drain. The way this "accretion disk" of infalling matter spins can tell scientists a lot about a particular black ...
Black Holes News -- ScienceDaily
1 day ago · Black Holes in Space. Read science articles on colliding supermassive black holes, simulated gravitational waves of a black hole, black hole theory and more. Astronomy images.
This Black Hole Is Acting Like a Cosmic Firestorm—Here’s What It …
3 days ago · The universe's mysteries continue to captivate scientists and enthusiasts alike, and one of the most enigmatic phenomena is the supermassive black hole, M87*. Located at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, this cosmic giant has been at the center of cutting-edge research. Thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, new findings from 2017
Black holes are spinning faster than expected, researchers find
4 days ago · There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of supermassive black holes reveals that their spin rates reveal something ...
Astronomers watch monster black hole spit out a light-year-long jet
3 days ago · The black hole in question, which has a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun, is located at the heart of a galaxy designated 1ES 1927+654. It's located about 270 million light-years away ...
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
Jun 19, 2024 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
NASA's Hubble Finds More Black Holes than Expected in the Early ...
Sep 17, 2024 · There seems to be countless black holes in the universe – space-time rabbit holes that forever swallow anything passing nearby. The most massive black holes, weighing millions or billions of times as much as our Sun, lurk in the centers of galaxies.
Physicists discover first “black hole triple” - MIT News
Oct 23, 2024 · In a study appearing today in Nature, physicists at MIT and Caltech report that they have observed a “black hole triple” for the first time. The new system holds a central black hole in the act of consuming a small star that’s spiraling in very close to the black hole, every 6.5 days — a configuration similar to most binary systems.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Nov 6, 2023 · By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale signature of a growing black hole just 470 million years after the big bang.
Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars
Apr 6, 2023 · The black hole lies at one end of the column, which stretches back to its parent galaxy. There is a remarkably bright knot of ionized oxygen at the outermost tip of the column. Researchers believe gas is probably being shocked and heated from the motion of the black hole hitting the gas, or it could be radiation from an accretion disk around ...