Black Hole

Illustration of the black hole at the center of the galaxy SDSS J110546.07+145202.4. The luminous disk of matter surrounds the event horizon, while a concentrated jet of particles and radiation is ejected into space. This newly launched jet is revealed by intense radio radiation that has been emanating from the…

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Think of black holes as bells from the cosmos. When they collide and coalesce, the resulting black hole “rings” like a bell, with vibrations known as quasinormal modes (gravitational-wave frequencies that decay in amplitude during the ‘ringdown’ phase). These are not just ghostly echoes. They are unambiguous probes of black…

Physicists have coaxed a black hole's most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for the first time, watched that light react back on the simulated black hole that produced it. The result gives researchers a rare, hands-on look at Hawking radiation ‪—‬ the faint thermal emission…

New images of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal gas filaments funneling material into a spinning disk around a supermassive black hole 800 light-years across, solving a decades-old puzzle of how these giants keep growing. This Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy…

Astronomers used 20-plus years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope and recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope to find Omega Centauri's first stellar-mass black hole, which has a visible star companion that is shown in greater detail. (Image credit: ESA, NASA, Maximilian Häberle (MPIA), Joseph DePasquale (STScI))…

Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they had been unable to spot any By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Omega Centauri. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Scientists have detected a small black…

The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars, yet evidence for them is scarce. Now, astronomers using archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and supportive observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have…

Scientists have proposed a new way to describe black holes that could overcome a major limitation in one of Stephen Hawking's most influential ideas. The research introduces an updated approach to black hole thermodynamics that works even when black holes are changing over time, potentially offering new insights into how…

For decades, the story of black holes seemed simple. Massive stars die, explode in supernovae, and then collapse into black holes. However, new evidence suggests that many black holes may not form this way at all. Instead, some of them are the offspring of other black holes. They are the…