Black Hole

This spring, scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole — but what they really want is to create a movie of a black hole. For that, the team will need to involve more instruments in the project, and the Event Horizon Telescope just got mone…

Fifty years after humans first stepped onto the moon, Mars has become the next frontier in space exploration. On Saturday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled a rocket prototype called Starship Mark 1: the next step in his company's quest to build a launch system …

Artist's concept of Planet Nine... but is it actually a planet? Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Astronomers have long speculated about the existence of "Planet 9", a super-Earth-sized planet in the outer regions of our solar system. It's been hypothesized as an expl…

This is an image from the Romulus simulation depicting the network of structures that assemble on intergalactic scales, revealing where the galaxies hosting black holes form. More massive galaxies that host more massive black holes tend to live in hotter (red…

Black holes on your mind? You're in luck because NASA has a new visualization showing how these immense objects work. Black holes are regions of extremely high density that warp space around them to such an extent that it traps matter and light. If any obj…

For nearly five years, growing numbers of researchers have blamed the weird orbits of distant solar system objects on the gravitational effects of an as-yet-undiscovered Planet Nine that lies in the icy realm far beyond Neptune. But a pair of scientists is no…

Friday, September 27th 2019, 4:45 pm - Black holes are among the most extreme objects in our universe Just this week, astronomers with NASA announced an amazing discovery - a black hole in the beginning stages of tearing apart a unlucky star. To accompany t…

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. space agency NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have observed the rarely-seen aftermath of a star that was violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The study published in t…

Understanding the Bubbles at the Center of the Milky Way First spotted in the 1980s, a massive filament-like structure has been seen in the Milky Way some 100 times over the past 30+ years. With the supermassive black hole at its center, its “billowy lobes r…

For years, scientists have been scanning the outer reaches of the solar system for signs of Planet Nine, a world that could be about 10 times as massive as Earth. While this speculative planet has not been directly detected, its presence is inferred by the gr…