Black Hole

NSF NOIRLab In many science fiction movies, black holes are often the go-to way to plug plot holes and provide a quick deus ex machina when all seems lost for the space heroes. In the real world, we just watch them from a distance. But we keep finding closer ones.…

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Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away, offers an intriguing target of study…

An illustration of a mass-quantized black hole, created using NightCafe Creator AI. Credit: University of Queensland Bizarre quantum properties of black holes – including their mind-bending ability to have different masses simultaneously – have been confirmed by University of Queensland (UQ) physicists. A team of theoretical physicists ran calculations that…

Home News Science & Astronomy An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 X-ray binary, which features a black hole stripping material from a companion star, and the material forming a hot accretion disk. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) The joint NASA–Italian Space Agency Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has peered deep…

Home News Science & Astronomy The IceCube observatory on the South Pole detected a stream of neutrinos from a distant galaxy obscured with dust. (Image credit: Martin Wolf, IceCube/NSF) A unique observatory buried in pristine Antarctic ice detected a stream of elusive neutrino particles streaming from the center of a…

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Tax rises are "likely" to come soon as the government faces an "unpalatable menu" to find ways to fill a £40bn fiscal black hole, a leading thinktank has warned. A Resolution Foundation report suggests Rishi Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a thankless task to re-balance the nation's finances…