Black Hole

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…

As a supermassive black hole consumed a star, researchers were surprised it exhibited properties that were similar to that of much smaller, stellar-mass black holes. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MIT Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds. On September 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a…

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Home References Science & Astronomy Where does a black hole go? (Image credit: All About Space magazine) So there you are, about to leap into a black hole. What could possibly await should — against all odds — you somehow survive? Where would you end up and what tantalising tales…

On Sept. 9- 2018, All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) detected a flash from a galaxy located 860 million light-years away. But, the source was a supermassive black hole that has a mass of 50 million times the mass of the sun. Usually, this supermassive black hole seems quiet, but…

vchal/Shutterstock.com Scientists have discovered yet another black hole in our universe, but this one is just 1,500 light-years away from Earth, nicknamed “the Unicorn” black hole. That makes it the closest known black hole to our solar system. At only three times as massive as our Sun, it’s considered to…

Astronomers have discovered one of the smallest black holes to date, sitting just 1,500 light-years away which also makes it the closest one to Earth found so far. And they have called it "the Unicorn." The black hole was given the nickname in part because it's so rare but also because…

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