Black Hole

Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes they have shown that passive black hole behavior may explain a remarkable torrent of star formation occurring in a distant cluster…

Supermassive black holes are among the most exciting and puzzling objects in the universe. These are the giant, massive bodies that sit at the heart of most, perhaps all, galaxies. Indeed, they may be the seeds from which all galaxies grow. Supermassive black holes are at least a hundred thousand…

TAU chalks up the possibility that a star "got too close to the dining table," causing the disruption - being devoured in the process. A supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun is seen in an undated NASA artist's concept illustration. (photo credit: REUTERS/NASA/JPL-CALTECH/HANDOUT)…

Home News Science & Astronomy A black hole's "blanets" would orbit light years away from the hot center illustrated here. (Image: © Shutterstock) Supermassive black holes dot our universe, monstrous gravity wells that bind galaxies together and wreath themselves in whirling cocoons of dust that emit bright X-ray beams. Sometimes,…

OverviewIntroduction The Science of Black Holesby Jesse Emspak Section 1: Seeing the Unseen: Finding Black Holes 1.1    Evidence Points to Violent Past for the Milky Way's Black Hole          by John Matson 1.2    Ripples in Spacetime          by Clara Moskowitz 1.3    Here Come the Waves  …

Sorry, science fiction fans. You can’t actually survive a trip through a black hole. And if you tried to take a plunge into one, like Matthew McConaughey in the movie Interstellar, you’d be ripped apart long before you could find out what’s on the other side.What is a Black Hole?To…

A faint fuzzy glow around the first black hole image last year baffled astronomers. Now we know what it contains – and it’s more bizarre than we ever imaginedRead More

Using cutting-edge computational techniques, researchers from the Flatiron Institute in New York City and Cornell University have solved the first robust theoretical model of strange metals. The work reveals that strange metals are a new state of matter. Strange metals share remarkable properties with black holes, opening exciting new directions…

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Home News Something caused a giant black hole's bright corona to wink out. Researchers suspect it may have been a collision with a star, illustrated here. (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) Telescopes all over the world watched a bright flash appear around a distant, supermassive black hole. And then, very quickly, it…