Black Hole

A simulation of vibing black holes in a cosmic love story. (Image credit: Jamie Lombardi/Allegheny College.) "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't see you!" As that ugly verse shows, black holes aren't exactly conducive to romantic imagery on Valentine's Day. However, a new simulation…

Helldivers 2 is always changing. One day you might wake up to a new DLC adding aliens with mind control powers called the Illuminate . Another you might encounter a big patch that secretly adds shovels . Or you might load up the sci-fi shooter and immediately receive an evacuation…

An artist’s illustration of the gargantuan black hole jets spewing into the early universe. (Image credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick) Astronomers have discovered a black hole jet that erupted into existence when the universe was less than 1.2 billion years old, or roughly 9% its current age. The jet spans 200,000 light-years…

An illustration shows a high-energy neutrino escaping a supermassive black hole then arriving at Earth after traversing vast cosmic distances. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Scientists have detected the highest-energy "ghost particle" ever seen. The particle, a type of neutrino, arrived at Earth at nearly the speed of…

Back in 1971, a couple of British astronomers predicted the existence of a black hole at the center of our galaxy. And in 1974, other astronomers found it, naming it Sagittarius A*. Since then, astronomers have discovered that a similar “supermassive black hole” sits at the center of almost every…

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An illustration shows a rotating supermassive black hole. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black hole spins to the…

Dark matter drives galaxy formation within the ΛCDM framework, with massive dark matter halos forming in the early Universe. Studying dark matter from the first billion years is crucial. Galaxies form within dark matter halos and grow by accreting gas, with baryon movements shaping them and their halos. An international…

Home » Science » Candidate Dyson Sphere Detections Are Regular Stars with Black Hole Galaxy Behind Astronomers looked more closely at one of seven stars that looked like possible Dyson sphere candidates from earlier observations. They used high-resolution e-MERLIN and EVN (e-VLBI) observations of a radio source associated with Dyson…

An illustration shows a black hole merger and its mirror image. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, scientists could reveal hidden asymmetries in the universe. The team behind new research on the topic…