Black Hole

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…

The latest headlines in your inbox twice a day Monday - Friday plus breaking news updates Transport for London was forced to ask the Government for another major bailout today as the network stricken by the Covid crisis faces a potential funding black hole of up to £5 billion. TfL…

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…

Space 21 July 2020 By Leah Crane Could tiny black holes explain dark matter?NASA/JPL-CaltechIf black holes formed in the first seconds after the big bang, they may still be around in colossal clusters that are practically invisible. In the very early universe, everything was so dense that the radiation that…

The two illustrations on this page show a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas, before (above) and after (below) the disk is partially dispersed. In this top image, the ball of white light above the black hole is the black hole corona, a collection of ultra-hot gas particles…

An artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. Astronomers discovered this, the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF’s NOIRLab. It is the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name. In honor of its discovery from Maunakea,…

Home News Science & Astronomy Because black holes can't be studied directly, scientists often watch their feeding habits to understand what these behemoths are doing. So what does it mean when a black hole suddenly stops gobbling up gas completely — and then just as suddenly starts again, hungrier than…

Home News Left: An illustration shows what a shrouded black hole might look like. Right: An image of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) highlights where the new cocooned black holes were detected. (Image: © Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) More than two dozen missing "cocooned" black…