Black Hole

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR space telescopes, astronomers have observed X-ray flares emitted from around the supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy called I Zwicky 1 (I Zw 1); further analysis of the flares has revealed short flashes of photons consistent with the re-emergence of emission from behind…

Stanford astrophysicist Dan Wilkins and his colleagues were studying a supermassive black hole when something caught their attention—​​ a series of bright flares of X-rays. The emission of such high-energy photons from a black hole was intriguing, but not necessarily unprecedented. Yet it was interesting enough for Wilkins to take…

Scientists have finally seen the backside of a black hole and in doing so, they've proved that a 1915 theory posited by Albert Einstein was correct. Einstein's 1915 Theory of General Relativity predicted that the gravitational pull of black holes is so large that black holes warp the fabric of…

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Home News An illustration of a black hole. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library) Astronomers have detected light coming from behind a black hole for the first time, proving Albert Einstein right, yet again. Researchers were studying the X-rays flaring from a supermassive black hole in the center of the…

A black hole is a highly dense object in space from which no light can escape. It means the region beyond which there is no return, so we shouldn’t be able to see anything that’s behind the black hole. A discovery contradicts this belief: For the first time, Stanford astrophysicists…

While most of the binary black-hole mergers recently detected by NSF’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the United States and by the Virgo detector in Italy are expected to consist of first-generation black holes formed from the collapse of stars, others might instead be of second — or even…

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Astrophysicists have detected light coming from the far side of a black hole, using telescopes to see physics predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity but not yet directly observed. The new findings affirmed ideas about how black holes warp light. A team of researchers recently inspected the coronal flares…

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins noticed an intriguing pattern. He observed a series of bright flares of X-rays -- exciting, but not unprecedented -- and then, the telescopes…