Black Hole

Editor’s note:  This article was updated June 2, 2025 to include the link to the scientific study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.   The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided scientists with a unique opportunity to answer a…

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions. Scientists have only recently encountered this class of X-ray flares,…

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An illustration of a black hole erupting with energy. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Researchers have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab for the first time. In 1972, physicists William Press and Saul Teukolsky described a theoretical phenomenon called a black hole bomb, in which mirrors enclose, reflect and exponentially…

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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…