Black Hole

If such an object a mere 1,000 times bigger than an atom passed through your body, the result would not be pretty Credit: George Peters Getty Images In the infant universe, a substantial enhancement in the radiation density on the scale of the cosmic horizon could have made some small…

A composite image of the supernova 1E0102.2-7219 contains X-rays from Chandra (blue and purple), visible light data from VLT’s MUSE instrument (bright red), and additional data from Hubble (dark red and green). A neutron star, the ultra dense core of a massive star that collapses and undergoes a supernova explosion,…

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Doing astronomy with ripples in spacetimeGeneral relativity predicts that moving massive objects generate gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. Direct detection of gravitational waves was first announced in February of 2016. Vitale reviews the scientific results of gravitational wave astronomy over the subsequent 5…

The ACT government has failed community legal centres by refusing to support a motion in the territory's parliament calling for an ongoing funding commitment, the opposition says. But Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury told the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday afternoon the ACT government could not support the motion before funding was considered…

MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer May 28, 2021Updated: June 1, 2021 9:55 p.m. This false-color X-ray and radio frequency image made available by NASA on Friday, May 28, 2021 shows threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. X-rays detected by the NASA's Chandra X-ray…

Home News This artist’s impression video shows the path of the star S2 as it passes very close to the supermassive "black hole" at the center of the Milky Way. (Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) In the summer of 2014, astronomers watched with giddy anticipation as a cloud of gas, known…

Last year, just for the heck of it, Scott Field and Gaurav Khanna tried something that wasn’t supposed to work. The fact that it actually worked quite well is already starting to make some ripples. Field and Khanna are researchers who try to figure out what black hole collisions should…

Paradoxically, black holes, those infamous swallowers of light and matter, also spew light and matter outward with unparalleled might and efficiency. They power thin beams of plasma called jets that extend thousands of light-years into space, forming glowing line segments seen all across the cosmos. Physicists know why stuff goes…

A few years ago, Time magazine published an article titled, “Cell-Phone Distracted Parenting Can Have Long Term Consequences.”1 It reported research supposedly showing that “distracted parental attention” could hurt infant development, and especially a baby’s ability to feel pleasure later on. What exactly did this research study? Did it directly…