Black Hole

Astronomers using the GBT have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of existence, approaching the theoretical maximum mass …

Making a monumental scientific breakthrough is really kind of its own reward. Even so, it’s always nice to get extra recognition in the form of unexpected money. For the 347 scientists around the world who made history when they captured the first image of a …

X-ray bursts repeating about every nine hours have been detected originating from the center of a galaxy called GSN 069.X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Optical: DSS We all know we should be getting three square meals a day. And now astronomers h…

Asteroid fear: Expert warns of '50 megaton power' of asteroid that just passed Earth - Express.co.uk

Surrey NanoSystems in the UK announced Vantablack, a nanotech material, in 2014 to much fanfare and many Spinal Tap jokes. It became known as one of the blackest-black materials ever created. At the time, Surrey NanoSystems described Vantablack as "revolutio…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin X-ray brightness of a black hole shows periodic fluctuations. ESA/XMM-Newton; G. Miniutti & M. Giustini (CAB, CSIC-INTA, Spain) Black holes are an astronomical …

CalTech Scientists have heard a baby black hole for the very first time, and the sounds it makes is just like a chirp. Physicists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found more proof that Albert Einsteins theory of general relativity is corr…

ByCharles E. Blue, National Radio Astronomy ObservatorySeptember 12, 2019Radio image of the center of the Milky Way with a portion of the MeerKAT telescope array in the foreground. The plane of the galaxy is marked by a series of bright features, exploded sta…

Cast your mind back four years, and gravitational waves were the talk of the town. On September 14, 2015, the first detection of these ripples in space-time was made by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, revealed months later to deserved global fanfare. Now with t…

In its first major result, just over a year after its inauguration, a super-sensitive South African telescope has discovered two giant ‘radio bubbles’ above and below the central region of the Milky Way. The features stretch over a total of 430 parsecs (1,400…