'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong': How astrophysicist …
1 day ago · These collapse directly into black holes, and they start off at something like 100,000 times the mass of the sun, that makes it much easier to get to supermassive black hole [mass scales].
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope sees 'knots' blasting from nearby black …
2 days ago · J. (2024), CC-BY 4.0) Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy features dotting a jet of energy spit out by a nearby black hole ...
Astronomers witness energetic switch on of black hole
Attribution (CC BY 4.0) A team of astronomers led by researchers from the University of Birmingham, University College London and Queen’s University Belfast have discovered one of the most dramatic 'switches on' of a black hole ever seen. They will present their findings on Tuesday 4 July at the 2023 National Astronomy Meeting in Cardiff.
Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed …
Sep 25, 2024 · CNN — Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in...
Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole
Nov 5, 2024 · The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8 ...
Black Holes News -- ScienceDaily
5 days ago · Black Holes in Space. Read science articles on colliding supermassive black holes, simulated gravitational waves of a black hole, black hole theory and more. Astronomy images.
Physicists discover first “black hole triple” - MIT News
Oct 23, 2024 · Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have discovered a black hole triple – a black hole with two orbiting stars around it at varying distances – for the first time, reports Jess Thomson for Newsweek. The researchers believe this “first-of-its-kind discovery could help unravel the mysteries of how black holes form and how they enter into ...
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
May 6, 2024 · A backdrop of the starry sky as seen from Earth completes the scene. Tour an alternative visualization that tracks a camera as it approaches, falls toward, briefly orbits, and escapes a supermassive black hole. This immersive 360-degree version allows viewers to look around during the flight.
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally ... - Science News
May 12, 2022 · New observations from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal the turbulent region around our home galaxy’s black hole, Sagittarius A*, in extreme detail.
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
Jul 10, 2024 · What's elusive are so-called intermediate-mass black holes weighing hundreds or a few thousand solar masses. Are they a "missing link" in black hole evolution? One of the best candidates is lurking in the center of the huge globular star cluster Omega Centauri.