Black Hole

The doughnut-shaped ring surrounding many supermassive black holes tells researchers about how fast the space object is feeding and can change how the black hole is viewed from Earth. Credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani Researchers use X-ray telescopes and a new data analysis technique to describe space…

In a new study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and Japan modeled the complete process of colliding a black hole with a neutron star. They estimated the entire process, starting with the final orbits and continuing through the merger and post-merger period, when high-energy…

Of all the terrors that lurk in the depths of space, one class of object stands out above all others: black holes. If you were to venture close enough to a black hole, you'd be on a one way trip, experiencing a phenomenon called, delightfully enough, spaghettification. The forces of…

When a hapless star ventures too close to one of the supermassive black holes that lurk at the center of galaxies, it’s torn to shreds and stretched like spaghetti. In this so-called tidal disruption event (TDE), the black hole dines on the stellar remnants, which wrap around the black hole’s belly…

A European team of astronomers led by Professor Kalliopi Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, under participation of Dr. Thomas Bisbas, University of Cologne modelled several emission lines in Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Telescope (VLT) observations to measure the gas pressure in…

From the ground, it looked like a second moon floating across the sky.  A research balloon that was the size of a football stadium recently passed over Nunavut and the N.W.T. studying the galaxy, and generating a buzz in some of the communities it travelled over.  The XL-Calibur — launched from Kiruna, Sweden,…

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The fastest growing black hole in nine million years has been discovered by Australian researchers, according to ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker. “A really cool discovery, so using the Siding Spring SkyMapper telescope, they were able to find this black hole,” he told Sky News Australia. “It’s a…

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Astronomers have discovered what they think could be a black hole roaming the Milky Way all by its lonesome. Why it matters: The discovery of this possible black hole will allow researchers to pin down exactly how many of these objects may exist out there in our galaxy and how…