Black Hole

This artist's impression shows a closely bound duo of energetic quasars — the hallmark of a pair of merging galaxies — seen when the universe was only three billion years old. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, J. da Silva)Astronomers have spotted two quasars lighting up the mutual heart of…

This artist’s concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. The gravitational tug-of-war between the two galaxies ignites a firestorm of star birth. Quasars are brilliant beacons of intense light from the centers of distant…

After numerous delays to an initial proposed launch date of December 2021 due to real-world events that Nintendo evidently felt made launching a light-hearted warfare game problematic, Wayforward's Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is finally almost here. Featuring the classic Game Boy Advance campaigns from both Advance Wars and Advance…

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Astronomers have discovered two new black holes that are the closest ones to Earth known, and also represent something that astronomers have never seen before.  The black holes, designated Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2, were discovered in data collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft.  Gaia BH1 is…

Gaia BH2, one of the closest black holes to Earth ever detected, sits 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Here, the galaxy Centaurus A shines brightly. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO; optical: Rolf Olsen; infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/Univ.Hertfordshire/M.Hardcastle) Two recently discovered black holes are remarkably close to Earth — and they…

Space Under the laws of quantum mechanics, information about what has fallen into a black hole cannot be destroyed, and now researchers claim they have figured out how it is preserved By Leah Crane An artist’s representation of a black hole Shutterstock / Dima Zel Black holes have an information…

Home News Science & Astronomy A powerful jet streaming from an active galactic black hole that is devouring huge amounts of matter. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) For the first time, astronomers have spotted a jet blasting from the core of a distant galaxy that has changed directions. About 1% of the…

When the immense Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, it left gaping holes in astronomy. Now, a team from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) hopes to address some of the gaps with a very different instrument: a tightly packed array of relatively inexpensive radio dishes that…

In a distant galaxy, a supermassive black hole spewing radiation at near light speed has shifted its angle by a whopping 90 degrees to point directly toward Earth — a sharp turn that's puzzling physicists. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the hungry black holes at the cores of many other…