Astronomers Spot Extraordinary Blast from Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 3783
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a JAXA-led mission with ESA and NASA…
What NASA says would happen if Earth got too close to a black hole |
Black holes capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts because they represent the most extreme gravitational forces…
Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow up
“We were all still working on Independence Day and writing proposals and trying to point all the telescopes…
These celestial objects survive the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole about 4 million…
Transforming sensitivity to new physics with single-top-quark events
The top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, has captivated physicists since its discovery in the 1990s and…
This star orbiting a black hole has a composition that surprises scientists
Many stars are present in the universe, and they also have various characteristics. But recently, astronomers have studied…
Dusty objects orbit safely around Milky Way’s giant black hole: Study
For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet…
A Physicist Ran the Numbers on What Would Happen if a Tiny Black Hole Passed Through Your Body
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed…
Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe
9 Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…
Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,”…
Scientists observed a black hole flare that ‘shined with the light of 10 trillion suns’
It can be challenging for us humans to wrap our brains around really massive numbers. Even the scale…