Black Hole

The team used an in-between galaxy to get clear images of quasars consisting of the black holes, with Chandra offering a sharp-enough image to separate the multiple images that resulted from the lensing effect. From there, microlensing (in this case, magnific…

One of the scientists who worked on the black hole picture is now pursuing an even more ambitious visualization, this time for the super-massive black hole at the center of our own galaxy.Long-time Slashdot reader Esther Schindler shares this report from Hewl…

About 13 billion years ago, when our universe was still just a scrappy startup, the cosmos hit a creative streak and churned out supermassive black holes left, right and center. Astronomers can still sneak a peek at these relics of the early universe when th…

About 13 billion years ago, when our universe was still just a scrappy startup, the cosmos hit a creative streak and churned out supermassive black holes left, right and center. Astronomers can still sneak a peek at these relics of the early universe when th…

Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro is gunning hard for the title of Most Progressive in the Democratic 2020 primary. First, he endorsed government-funded abortions for those who are "trans female" (biological males who identify a…

On Tuesday morning the sun rose over Oeno Island, a normally uninhabited coral atoll in the South Pacific, as a black hole in the sky, feathered with pale whiskers of light. And so began, once again, one of the great spectacles available to the inhabitants o…

The role of an excited black hole in the death of an exotic 'jellyfish' galaxy will be presented today (3 July) by Callum Bellhouse of the University of Birmingham at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Lancaster. The supermassive black hole at the centre o…

IMAGE: This is jellyfish galaxy JO201. view more  Credit: Callum Bellhouse and the GASP collaboration The role of an excited black hole in the death of an exotic 'jellyfish' galaxy will be presented today (3 July) by Callum Bellhouse of the University of …

Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBH) are hard to explain. These gargantuan singularities are thought to be at the center of every large galaxy (our Milky Way has one) but their presence there sometimes defies easy explanation. As far as we know, black holes form …

In the most simple terms, the model suggests that supermassive black holes formed "very, very quickly over very, very short periods of time" and then stopped suddenly. "Supermassive black holes only had a short time period where they were able to grow fast an…