A black hole's secrets could hide in its dizzying light 'echoes'
1 day ago · Some black holes are the most massive individual objects in the universe; the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, for example, has a total mass that's 6.5 billion times greater than ...
Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole
Nov 5, 2024 · The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8 ...
Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed …
Sep 25, 2024 · CNN — Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in...
Black Holes News -- ScienceDaily
5 days 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.
Physicists discover first “black hole triple” - MIT News
Oct 23, 2024 · Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have discovered a black hole triple – a black hole with two orbiting stars around it at varying distances – for the first time, reports Jess Thomson for Newsweek. The researchers believe this “first-of-its-kind discovery could help unravel the mysteries of how black holes form and how they enter into ...
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
May 6, 2024 · Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return.
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.
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally ... - Science News
May 12, 2022 · New observations from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal the turbulent region around our home galaxy’s black hole, Sagittarius A*, in extreme detail.
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of …
May 12, 2022 · Scientists are particularly excited to finally have images of two black holes of very different sizes, which offers the opportunity to understand how they compare and contrast. They have also begun to use the new data to test theories and models of how gas behaves around supermassive black holes.
Black hole at the centre of our Galaxy imaged for the first time
May 12, 2022 · Nature - The Event Horizon Telescope network has captured the second-ever direct image of a black hole — called Sagittarius A* — at the centre of the Milky Way.