Black Hole

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…

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…

Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein's equations to model the growth of the universe.Physicists usually assume that a cosmologically large system, such as the universe,…