Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the ... - NPR
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists say is the fastest-growing black hole ever...
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
WEBJul 10, 2024 · If confirmed, it is closer to Earth than the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole in the center of the Milky Way. That black hole is 26,000 light-years away, while Omega Centauri is 17,700 light-years from us.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
WEBNov 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. Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the …
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever seen – …
WEB1 day ago · The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred ...
Scientists detect longest pair of jets ... - Associated Press News
WEB1 day ago · NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted – about as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up end-to-end. “This one has managed to reach a size that’s so big,” said Eileen Meyer, who studies black …
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WEB3 days ago · Supermassive black holes that shred and devour stars throw them up like a "bad curry" and cover themselves in the wreckage, sick new simulations reveal.
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally ... - Science News
WEBMay 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.
Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected - BBC
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · The most luminous object ever detected has been spied in the distant Universe. It's a quasar - the bright core of a galaxy that is powered by a gargantuan black hole some 17 billion times the...
Black hole at the centre of our Galaxy imaged for the first time
WEBMay 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.
‘Sleeping giant’ massive black hole found in the Milky Way galaxy - CNN
WEBApr 16, 2024 · Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole to date in the Milky Way galaxy, and it was all due to the wobble of the object’s companion star.
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as ... - CNN
WEBMay 17, 2024 · Using telescopes capable of detecting X-rays, a team of astronomers has for the first time observed this area — called the “plunging region” — in a black hole about 10,000 light-years from ...
Astronomers discover biggest ever seen black hole jets, which …
WEB1 day ago · An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years.
James Webb Space Telescope finds 'extremely red' supermassive black …
WEBFeb 27, 2024 · Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an "extremely red," growing supermassive black hole powering a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
Exotic black holes could be a byproduct of dark matter
WEBJun 6, 2024 · In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose. The gravitational pull from these tiny, invisible objects could potentially explain all the dark matter that we can’t see today.
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WEB2 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.
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first …
WEBJun 18, 2024 · A supermassive black hole in galaxy SDSS1335+0728 has lit up, possibly giving astronomers a look at how such beasts are awakened. M. Kornmesser/ESO. By Adam Mann. June 18, 2024 at 4:45 pm....
First detection of light from behind a black hole - Stanford News
WEBJul 28, 2021 · Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins noticed an intriguing pattern.
Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing ... - MIT News
WEBNov 30, 2022 · A mysterious bright light detected in February has been identified as a black hole consuming a nearby star by researchers at MIT and elsewhere, reports Isaac Schultz for Gizmodo. “This particular event was 100 times more powerful than the most powerful gamma-ray burst afterglow,” says research scientist Dheeraj “DJ” Pasham.
The first picture of a black hole opens a new era of astrophysics
WEBApr 10, 2019 · Astronomers used a network of telescopes around the world to take a picture of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87.
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole ... - MIT News
WEBJul 1, 2021 · Physicists at MIT and elsewhere have used gravitational waves to observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole area theorem for the first time. This computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes that produced the gravitational wave signal, GW150914.
Astronomers find the biggest black hole jets ever – and they are ...
WEB1 day ago · Scientists have found the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen. The two stretch 23 million light-years long across the universe. That is roughly as long as 140 of our own Milky Way galaxy ...
Newly discovered black hole jets span more than 140 Milky Way …
WEB17 hours ago · Nicknamed Porphyrion after a Greek giant by co-discoverer Aivin Gast of the University of Oxford, the jet system spans 23 million light-years, the equivalent of 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up back to back. The galaxy hosting the supermassive black hole, which is 7.5 billion light-years away, is a dot in the center of the image.
Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology
WEB1 day ago · A pair of jets blasting out of a black hole spans 23 million light years, the equivalent of 220 Milky Way galaxies in length. This is so large that it may change our understanding both of black ...
Black Hole Spews Energy of 'Trillions of Suns' in Record-Breaking ...
WEB1 day ago · An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years ...
Scientists find first evidence that black holes are the source of …
WEBFeb 15, 2023 · Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy—the 'missing' 70% of the universe.
Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a ... - Yahoo
WEB1 day ago · Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted – about as long as 140 Milky Way ...
Black hole: First picture of Milky Way monster - BBC News
WEBMay 12, 2022 · This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy, pictured for the very first time. Known as Sagittarius A*, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of...
What is a black hole? | University of Chicago News
WEBWhat is a black hole, really? What do they look like, eat, and how do they grow? What’s inside a black hole? Learn the answers to these questions and more.
New faculty Q&A: Discovering black holes in dwarf galaxies with …
WEB2 days ago · New faculty Q&A: Discovering black holes in dwarf galaxies with Mallory Molina. Posted by Mary-Lou Watkinson on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 in News Story, Profiles.. Meet new Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Mallory Molina and learn about their research on black holes, their teaching style, and why they are …