Black Hole

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…

Astronomers discovered eight buried dual AGN candidates, the largest sample of hidden accreting supermassive black holes in late stage galaxy mergers, selected using NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. This result will be presen…

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In the decades since Hawking radiation was discovered, the information paradox has motivated the quest for a deeper understanding of nature. Todays physicists widely believe black hole information is preserved that the quantum nature of gravity somehow modifi…

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The headquarters of the European Meteorological Satellite Agency in Darmstadt, Germany (city of science!), was easy to spot: It is shaped like one of their early weather satellites, with a central cylinder and protruding wings. In the gardens outside, large-…

Black holes are elusive and powerful regions of space. They have inspired sci-fi writers, scientists and space fans to peer into the deepest mysteries of the universe.  Nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole's strong gravitational field. We ha…