Black Hole

When Lior Shamir, a scientist at Kansas State University, examined images from the James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), he saw something quite unexpected. The majority of the 263 galaxies he observed rotated in the same direction — with two thirds spinning clockwise, Shamir reported in the…

Since its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s MMS, or Magnetospheric Multiscale, mission has been rewriting our understanding of a key physical process that is important across the universe, from black holes to the Sun to Earth's protective magnetic field. This process, called magnetic reconnection, occurs when magnetic field lines…

Black holes may transition into white holes, ejecting matter and even time back into the Universe, according to a new study by physicists from the University of Sheffield and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Steffen Gielen & Lucía Menéndez-Pidal study the quantum dynamics of a planar black hole, requiring unitarity…

An illustration of "Hawking radiation" leaking out of a black hole. New research into the origins of an incredibly powerful particle detected on Earth could pave the way to proving some of Hawking's major black hole theories correct. (Image credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Five decades…

Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nestled within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of our nearest galactic neighbors, this stealthy giant had long eluded detection. Thanks to high-precision mapping and advanced modeling, researchers have traced its telltale…

The mass of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is about 600,000 solar masses. Artist’s impression of a hypervelocity star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud (shown on right). When a binary star system ventures too…

Space A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand kilometres per second – the result of a giant cosmic collision By Alex Wilkins Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email An image of…

Labour has been warned that a failure by the NHS to achieve 'unprecedented' productivity growth could leave a £13billion black hole in the public finances. A new analysis by the Health Foundation piled pressure on NHS bosses to hit the Government's target for a 2 per cent productivity boost across…

Imagine wasting two weeks on fake applicants. Australian businesses are buried under a mountain of AI-generated resumes, spending an average of 9.56 days—almost two full working weeks—sorting through unsuitable applications for every job opening. This reality, uncovered in new research by Remote, a global HR platform, comes from surveying 506…

Black hole singularities — theoretical points of infinite density at the centers of the cosmic monsters — defy physics. New tweaks proposed to Einstein’s relativity may do away with them at last. (Image credit: Adis Resic via Pixabay) Theoretical physicists have proposed a potential solution to one of the most…