Black Hole

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An artist's illustration showing Earth in space. (Image source: TheHappyCamper - Pixabay) During its last flyby, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX probe took photos of the Earth showing unique details. And that's not all, because it also took a photo of the Moon, highlighting the size of the solar system. NASA has conducted…

It's about the soul of a nation still trapped in mental servitude. It didn’t require Modi to identify this black hole in India’s self-esteem. He was just the first political leader wielding power who tried to restore India’s mojo. When a Prime Minister singles out a facet of India’s past…

A team of researchers used the balloon-borne XL-Calibur telescope to capture the most detailed polarized X-ray measurements yet from the black hole Cygnus X-1. These observations reveal new clues about how superheated material swirls, stretches, and glows as it falls toward the black hole’s center. An international team of physicists...Read…

Friday 28 November 2025 2:57 pm  |   Updated:  Friday 28 November 2025 3:23 pm Reeves is under fresh scrutiny as the OBR's forecast timeline faces questions. Rachel Reeves is in the firing line for “misleading the country” after the chair of the fiscal watchdog poured cold water over claims there…

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have pieced together the turbulent history of a distant red giant by studying the…

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The galaxy GHZ2 (white box) was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Its light had to travel some 13.4 billion years to reach Earth. (Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / T. Treu, UCLA / NAOJ / T. Bakx, Nagoya U.) Astronomers using the James Webb…

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away. Instead of exploding as a supernova, the star was torn apart, creating the brightest and most distant black hole flare ever recorded—shining with the power of 10 trillion suns...Read…

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, including Columbia University astronomer Maximiliano Isi, has captured another signal from a nearly identical cosmic…