Black Hole

Illustration of the galaxy called CQ4479. The extremely active black hole at the galaxy’s center is consuming material so fast that the material is glowing as it spins into the black hole’s center, forming a luminous quasar. Quasars create intense energy that was thought to halt all star birth and…

VERA (VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry, by the way, “VLBI” represents Very Long Baseline Interferometry) started in 2000 to map three-dimensional velocity and spatial structures in the Milky Way. Using a methodology called interferometry, VERS combines data from radio telescopes scattered across the Japanese archipelago to achieve the same resolution…

Home News (Image: © Shutterstock) The universe might be full of tiny, ancient black holes. And researchers might be able to prove it.These mini black holes from the beginning of time, or primordial black holes (PBHs), were first dreamed up decades ago. Researchers proposed them as an explanation for dark…

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics went to three researchers who confirmed that Einstein’s general relativity predicts black holes, and established that the center of our own galaxy houses a supermassive black hole with the equivalent of 4 million suns packed into a relatively small space. Besides expanding our understanding…

Losing myself in the childish candy abyss of match-3 phone games is a bad habit I'll never give up. Image: Shutterstock By Alexis Nedd2020-11-24 00:00:00 UTC Welcome to No Shame November! This week we're diving into the pop culture we love that society tells us we shouldn't. In NBC’s fantastic afterlife…

Fortnite Winterfest 2020 is right around the corner. Here’s everything we know. Epic Games have always celebrated the holiday season in Fortnite, bringing players content updates, challenges, and cosmetic rewards. We don’t expect 2020 to be any different, as we prepare ourselves to unlock all of these new holiday-themed additions.…

Credit: University of Nottingham Researchers have developed a new theory for observing a quantum vacuum that could lead to new insights into the behavior of black holes. The Unruh effect combines quantum physics and the theory of relativity. So far it has not been possible to measure or observe it,…

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed spectacular large-scale dark and light rays beaming out of the bright center of IC 5063, an active galaxy located 156 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Indus. The researchers think that an inner-tube-shaped ring, or torus, of dusty material…

Artist’s conception of a galaxy with an active nucleus propelling jets of material outward from the galaxy’s center. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF Astronomers using data from the ongoing VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have found a number of distant galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores that have launched powerful,…

Artistic representation: In a merger of neutron stars extreme temperatures and densities occur. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. A new study lead by GSI scientists and international colleagues investigates black-hole formation in neutron star mergers. Computer simulations show that the properties of dense nuclear matter play a crucial role,…