Black Hole

An illustration of merging black holes within the boundary of a supermassive black hole (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) You can tell a lot about a human being's ancestry from their general characteristics. A child can have their father's eyes, their mother's smile, or maybe even their grandfather's…

A comparison between the galaxy clusters Perseus and Centauru. The glowing white dots are black holes. (Image credit: Perseus Cluster: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivares et al.; Optical/IR: DSS; H-alpha: CFHT/SITELLE; Centaurus Cluster: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/V. Olivaresi et al.; Optical/IR: NASA/ESA/STScI; H-alpha: ESO/VLT/MUSE; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk) Anyone who has experienced the blistering…

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESO’s Very Large Telescope provide evidence that outbursts from supermassive black holes can help cool down gas to feed themselves. These images show two of the galaxy clusters in the study, the Perseus Cluster and the Centaurus Cluster. Chandra data represented in…

Physics Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the mystery of dark energy By Samir Mathur Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Sam Chivers For as long as we have tried…

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These eerie wails are a real sound wave from a supermassive black hole NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic…

An illustration shows seven "little red dot" galaxies embedded in the cosmic web, one of which is dominated by a supermassive black hole (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe.…

Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) provide new evidence that outbursts from black holes can help cool down gas to feed themselves.…

(Image credit: © CfA/Mel Weiss) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur.. Sagittarius A* is 4 million times the mass of the sun and…

January 16, 2025 6 min read This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Bizarre Star That Refuses to Die Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole By Gayoung Lee edited by Lee Billings An artist’s impression of a tidal…