Black Hole

(This whole article is spoilers for the twisty German time travel series “Dark” on Netflix. This is just more than 3,000 words of spoilers. Just a wall of spoilers here, basically.) I really did not think that “Dark” would get an actually conclusive ending. I thought the German Netflix series…

NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Galaxy NGC 1068 with its active black hole shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset. A new model suggests that the corona around such supermassive black holes could be the source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…

You've read 1 of 2 free monthly articles. Learn More. Close Facts So Romantic On Matter Posted By Subodh Patil on Jul 01, 2020 Primordial black holes could have formed in the absence of any matter, from quantum fluctuations that would go on to form, after billions of years, the filament-like…

The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, whose detector is buried deep in the Antarctic ice, is an enigma that has perplexed physicists and astronomers. A new model could help explain the unexpectedly large flux of some of these neutrinos inferred by recent neutrino and…

More than four billion years ago, a pair of black holes engaged in a dramatic dance. With gas and dust whirling around them, the voids spiraled closer and closer together, orbiting perilously near to a supermassive black hole. Then the two smaller black holes merged in a collision so powerful…

Mysteries about the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos have deepened by the recent IceCube measurement of a large diffuse flux in the 10–100 TeV range.  Scientists at Penn State have devised a new model that could help explain the unexpectedly large flux of some of these neutrinos inferred by recent…

Astronomers Find Light Created by Black Hole Merger Astronomers working in California say they may have discovered evidence of light emitted from the merger of two black holes. If their findings are confirmed by future studies, then this marks the first-ever observation of light ejected by the smashing together of…

An international team of astronomers has discovered the second most distant quasar ever found. Named Pōniuā`ena and designated J100758.264+211529.207 (J1007+2115), the object is around 13.1 billion light-years away, and contains a huge black hole with the mass equivalent to about 1.5 billion Suns, about twice as massive as that in…

This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may have merged together to form a new black hole.Image credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) In a first, astronomers may have seen light from the merger of…

Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of two black holes merging within the disk of a supermassive black hole, later releasing a burst of light. (Image: © Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)) Black holes aren't supposed to make flashes of light. It's right there in the name: black holes.Even when…