Black Hole

NASA Universe Web Team Apr 30, 2025 Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of galaxies? It sounds a little contradictory, but it’s true! They may not look bright to our eyes, but satellites…

(Main) An image of the Extended Groth Strip as seen by the JWST (inset). (Image credit: Frank Summers (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)) Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back in time over 10…

Physics A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better understand real black holes. By Alex Wilkins Facebook / Meta Twitter…

Scientists recently discovered something incredibly rare in space—a lone black hole drifting by itself through our galaxy. This kind of find is so unusual that they say it’s like winning a cosmic lottery. In fact, the chances of spotting such a black hole are said to be “one in a…

Space Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now astronomers have seen the most powerful one of these signals ever, and have a new idea about their cause By Alex Wilkins Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon…

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which is about as massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy 270 million light-years away. Its corona—a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared before reassembling months later.  Now…

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the beginning of time and the center of every black hole lies a point of infinite density called a singularity. To explore these enigmas, we take what we know about space, time, gravity, and quantum mechanics and apply it…

A digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function, in Seattle, Wash. Credit: Forrest Collman/Allen Institute This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists…

Black holes — the supermassive gravitation forces at the center of most galaxies — actually spend much of their time dormant, or essentially asleep. Astronomers have now spotted one not only waking up but appearing to hit the celestial equivalent of a snooze button every few days. The black hole…