A new James Webb image shows the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy in stunning detail! The post A New Image From Webb Shows Galaxy NGC 1365, Known to Have an Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole appeared first on Universe Today.

More than 40% of UK households do not have access to off-street parking AA says 40% of households could be left behind in EV transition as on-street charger schemes fail to meet demand The government is failing to meet the UK’s needs for on-street electric car chargers, the AA has warned. The UK’s electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, published in March, stated that a minimum of 70,000 on-street chargers will be required in residential areas by 2030 – when sales of new petrol and diesel cars will be banned. As of 1 July 2022, just 2869 had been installed under the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS), with funding allocated for a further 9543. The ORCS provides local authorities with grants to install on-street

New research suggests that the expansion of the universe could be measured using colliding black holes as 'spectral sirens.'

Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXB) comprise a stellar-mass black hole accreting gas from a companion star and emitting transient X-ray emission and compact radio jets.

The golden glowing ring of matter seen in the first-ever image of a black hole has been remastered, revealing the action of gravity around such cosmic titans.

Astrophysicists lay out a method for how to use pairs of colliding black holes to measure how fast our universe is expanding - and thus understand how the universe evolved, what it is made out of, and where it's going.

A powerful and spectacular cosmic dance that began a billion years ago will lead to a collision and merger between two galaxies and the supermassive black holes at their hearts.

Black holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein, mysterious islands and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside.

When scientists unveiled humanity's historic first image of a black hole in 2019—depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward it—they believed even richer imagery and insights were waiting to be teased out of the data.

Black Holes, wormholes, entanglement, Einstein...mysterious islands...and new science that sees how the inside of a black hole is secretly on the outside of a black hole.

Much of the matter in the universe remains unknown and undefined, yet theoretical physicists continue to gain clues to the properties of dark matter and black holes. A study by a team of scientists including three from Stony Brook University proposes a novel method to search for new particles not currently contained in the standard model of particle physics. Their method, published in Nature Communications, could shed light on the nature of dark matter.

Recent theoretical and observational results have revealed new secrets about these shadowy objects, with deep implications for more than just black holes themselves

These fun stories show progress from the scale of quantum effects to that of snakes and from Earth to the edge of the universe

A black hole is usually where information goes to disappear—but scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe.

Scientists think that when dark photons collect around black holes, they can get trapped and boosted to high energies, where they might transform into other particles (or even just normal photons).

Just milliseconds after the universe’s Big Bang, chaos reigned. Atomic nuclei fused and broke apart in hot, frenzied

Fox News co-host Greg Gutfeld discussed the public backlash from the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home Monday on "The Five."

Computer simulations show the role primordial black holes may have played in the early universe, but the process isn't clear cut. The post Primordial Black Holes Could Have Triggered the Formation of Supermassive Black Holes appeared first on Universe Today.

Navigating neutrinos Tidal disruption events, in which supermassive black holes rip apart stars, could supercharge ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos, Emily Conover reported in “Zippy neutrino linked to a source” (SN: 6/18/22, p. 8). Conover reported that scientists tracked a high-energy neutrino to an area of the sky where a bright flare, thought to be […]

Just milliseconds after the universe's Big Bang, chaos reigned. Atomic nuclei fused and broke apart in hot, frenzied motion. Incredibly strong pressure waves built up and squeezed matter so tightly together that black holes formed, which astrophysicists call primordial black holes.

The Event Horizon Telescope has imaged the powerful near-light-speed jet of a blazar, and found it to be twisted.

Author(s): Seth Olsen, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Jonathan Mushkin, Javier Roulet, Barak Zackay, and Matias ZaldarriagaThe present paper applies a refined detection pipeline to publicly available LIGO-Virgo data from the first half of the third observing run (O3a) to identify new binary black hole (BBH) mergers. The study adds ten new BBH mergers to existing catalogs and provides further evidence for the significance level of previously identified events. The new events display interesting new features that include unexplored ranges of the effective spin and mass ratio, they challenge aspects of stellar collapse models, and have implications for BBH formation channels and black hole mass gaps. [Phys. Rev. D 106, 043009] Published Tue Aug 09, 2022

New research suggests a way for black holes to merge quickly: They must be caught in the accretion disk of a supermassive companion.

Tehran, IRNA – The researches in Faculty of Physics of the Sharif University of Technology have managed to discover a super high-density black hole, the weight of which is a million times greater than the sun.

The solutions to Einstein’s equations that describe a spinning black hole won’t blow up, even when poked or prodded. The post At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable first appeared on Quanta Magazine

A closer look at gravitational wave data reveals 10 overlooked mergers, including one between black holes that probably found each other late in life.

An international team has simulated what happens when a black hole and neutron star merge, and the results were pretty The post A Black Hole can Tear a Neutron Star Apart in Less Than 2 Seconds appeared first on Universe Today.

There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research.

Discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation, and gravitational waves.

There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research. Albert Einstein first published his book explaining the theory of general relativity – which postulated black holes – in 1922. One hundred years later, astronomers captured actual images of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. In a recent paper, a team of astronomers describes another exciting new discovery: the first “dormant” black hole observed outside of the galaxy. I am an astrophysicist who has studied black holes – the most dense objects in the universe – for nearly two decades. Dormant…This story continues at The Next Web

Even NASA's next-generation space observatory can't manage to see supermassive black holes directly, but that doesn't mean astronomers can't use its data to better understand the mysterious behemoths.

Research uses X-ray telescopes and a new data analysis technique to describe space objects.

Supermassive black holes with varying light signatures are actually in different stages of the life cycle.

Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a study led by Dartmouth researchers.

Powerful jets of a supermassive black hole change the conditions for star formation in interstellar clouds.

SLS finally gets a launch date for Artemis I, JWST keeps giving the goodness, Percy finds another weird thing on Mars, astronomers find a dormant black hole and NASA will launch a flagship telescope on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. This week’s most important space and astronomy news are here in our special easy-to-consume format we … Continue reading "SLS Launch Date, Falcon Heavy Gets Flagship NASA Telescope, Dormant Black Hole" The post SLS Launch Date, Falcon Heavy Gets Flagship NASA Telescope, Dormant Black Hole appeared first on Universe Today.

Delayed emissions from black holes that fed on stars months earlier could help explain the formation of powerful jets

A European team of astronomers led by Professor Kalliopi Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, under participation of Dr. Thomas Bisbas, University of Cologne modeled several emission lines in Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Telescope (VLT) observations to measure the gas pressure in both jet-impacted clouds and ambient clouds. With these unprecedented measurements, published recently in Nature Astronomy, they discovered that the jets significantly change the internal and external pressure of molecular clouds in their path.

What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a “stellar-mass” black hole. Astronomers detect black holes by the X-ray emissions they emit. But, what if the black hole isn’t giving off high levels of X-ray emissions? Then, it could be a very rare object … Continue reading "A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way" The post A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

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A team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, have found a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbour galaxy to our own.

A cosmic crime scene has revealed the gory details of black holes' eating habits.

Stellar-mass black holes are formed when massive stars reach the end of their lives and collapse under their own gravity.

New research motivated by string theory suggests possible, and equally strange, fates for evaporating black holes.

A team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, have found a stellar-mass black hole

Stellar-mass black holes are believed to be born during the death of a large star, in a massive supernovae explosion.

A team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, have found a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own. The researchers found that the star that gave rise to the black hole vanished without any sign of a powerful explosion.

Discovery could help astronomers estimate a population of hidden black holes

While these black holes are thought to be common throughout the universe, they have proved difficult to find, and they have themselves rejected several possible candidates in recent years. Now the international team has found a "needle in a haystack," said Tomer Shenar, an astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam and lead author of a new study in the Nature Astronomy journal. The team was searching the skies for something that could eventually become a binary black hole, in which two black holes orbit each other after swallowing their stars in a supernovae explosion. "We found a quite massive star, that weighs 25 times the mass of our Sun, that is orbiting around something that we do not see," Shenar told AFP. They believe the blue star, which is in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy that neighbours our Milky Way, is locked in a death dance with a black hole that has nine times the mass of our Sun. These kinds of black holes are normally detected by the X-ray radiation they emit

Astronomers have found a binary system containing a massive blue star and a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the star-forming Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. The team includes Kareem El-Badry—nicknamed by fellow astronomers as the "black hole destroyer"—of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).

A citizen science project is inviting members of the public to help search for hidden black holes.

Tweaking targets? Now that a CRISPR-based gene drive to eliminate malaria-carrying mosquitoes has passed a big test, researchers are getting input from people in Africa, where the disease hits hard, about whether to release the technology, Tina Hesman Saey reported in “A weapon against mosquitoes” (SN: 6/4/22, p. 20). Reader Roger Floyd asked whether gene […]

Researchers found that streams of cold gas could create 'seeds' of quasars — ultraluminous supermassive black holes — in the early universe, solving a decades-old mystery.

Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete process of the collision of a black hole with a neutron star. In their studies, they calculated the process from the final orbits through the merger to the post-merger phase in which, according to their calculations, high-energy gamma-ray bursts may occur. The results of their studies have now been published in the journal Physical Review D.

What happens when a star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole? The obvious story is that it gets sucked in, never to be seen again. Some of its material gets superheated on the way in and that gives off huge amounts of radiation—usually X-rays. That’s not a wrong explanation, just incomplete. There’s more … Continue reading "A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole and was Torn Apart. Surprisingly Little Actually Went In" The post A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole and was Torn Apart. Surprisingly Little Actually Went In appeared first on Universe Today.

It's “the first time anyone has deduced the shape of the gas cloud around a spaghetiffied star.”

The discovery should help astronomers better understand the extreme conditions at the center of our galaxy and what can survive there.

The XL-Calibur telescope will measure the X-ray emissions from black holes and neutron stars in our galaxy.

Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life." Today, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan's Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb's largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon's diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.

In 2019 tidal disruption, much of star's mass ended up in symmetrical cloud that hid black hole.

Scientists have measured how fast a supermassive black hole is spinning, and the result might give us a clue about how the giant formed.

In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or “spaghettified,” after

In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or 'spaghettified,' after approaching too close to a massive black hole. That tidal disruption of a sun-like star by a black hole 1 million times more massive than itself took place 215 million light years from Earth. Luckily, this was the first such event bright enough that astronomers could study the optical light from the stellar death, specifically the light's polarization, to learn more about what happened after the star was torn apart.

In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or "spaghettified," after approaching too close to a massive black hole.

A research team from the Open University and the University of Southampton is asking for the public's help to find some of the most mysterious, elusive objects in the universe—black holes. By examining data from the SuperWASP survey, the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program, the team hope to detect changes in starlight that may provide evidence for the existence of these black holes.

A research team is asking for the public's help to find some of the most mysterious, elusive objects in the Universe - black holes. By examining data from the SuperWASP survey, the team hope to detect changes in starlight that may provide evidence for the existence of these black holes.

Researchers found that streams of cold gas could create 'seeds' of quasars — ultraluminous supermassive black holes — in the early universe, solving a decades-old mystery.

The discovery sheds new light on the origin and evolution of the orbit of fast-moving stars in the heart of the Milky Way.

There’s a population of stars in the heart of our galaxy whipping around Sagittarius A* (the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole). Astronomers just found the closest, fastest one (so far). It’s called S4716 and it orbits Sag A* once every four years. That makes it officially the fastest star moving at the heart of … Continue reading "One Star Flies Past the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 3% the Speed of Light" The post One Star Flies Past the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 3% the Speed of Light appeared first on Universe Today.

New research shows that distant quasars were born in the cold dark of turbulent gas. The post Supermassive Black Holes Formed Directly out of Enormous Streams of Cold gas appeared first on Universe Today.

Astrophysicists are puzzled by the discovery of a star whipping around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way in close proximity and faster than any star previously found.

A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole in record time. The star, S4716, orbits Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the center of our Milky Way, in four years and reaches a speed of around 8,000 kilometers per second. S4716 comes as close as 100 AU (astronomical unit) to the black hole—a small distance by astronomical standards. One AU corresponds to 149,597,870 kilometers. The study has been published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole’s spin, one of two fundamental properties of black

Black holes. They used to be theoretical, up until the first one was found and confirmed back in the late 20th Century. Now, astronomers find them all over the place. We even have direct radio images of two black holes: one in M87 and Sagittarius A* in the center of our galaxy. So, what do … Continue reading "Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one… Doesn’t" The post Most Black Holes Spin Rapidly. This one… Doesn’t appeared first on Universe Today.

Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole's spin, one of two fundamental properties of black holes. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows this black hole is spinning slower than most of its smaller cousins.

How monster black holes overpower their much larger host galaxies.

The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to another luminous astronomical, it would be fiendishly hard to detect them. But now we have a new potential data set to do so.

The thing with black holes is they’re hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can detect their gravitational pull. And if there are rogue black holes simply traveling throughout the galaxy and not tied to another luminous astronomical, it would be fiendishly hard to detect them. But now we have … Continue reading "Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way" The post Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way appeared first on Universe Today.

A new study has shown how gravitational waves can be used to detect exotic particles orbiting black holes. The post We Could Discover new Kinds of Particles Around Black Holes Through Gravitational Waves appeared first on Universe Today.

Next time the Event Horizon Telescope turns to study the monster black hole at the center of the Milky Way, it will have help from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy's core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released a dramatic submillimeter image of it as seen illuminated by its glowing environment. Many galaxies have nuclear SMBHs that are a thousand times bigger, for example the nucleus of M87, whose image was taken by the EHT in 2020. But SagA* is relatively close to us, only about twenty-five thousand light-years, and its proximity offers astronomers a unique opportunity to probe the properties of SMBHs.

Researchers have shown in a single model the full story of how gas travels in the center of the Milky Way -- from being blown off by stars to falling into the black hole.

Researchers were able to use the unique subtle flickering of the bright glow of orbiting gas to construct the most accurate model to date of our own galaxy's central black hole, providing insight into properties such as its structure and motion.

Looks can be deceiving. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady, but it flickers 120 times per second. Because the brain only perceives an average of the information it receives, this flickering is blurred and the perception of constant illumination is a mere illusion.

Astronomers in Australia have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black hole to have existed in the last 9 billion years.

Astronomers have directly measured the mass and velocity of an isolated black hole for the first time using gravitational lensing.

Astronomers have directly measured the mass and velocity of an isolated black hole for the first time using gravitational lensing.

If, as astronomers believe, the death of large stars leave behind black holes, there should be hundreds of

The black hole information paradox is a clash between two disciplines: the theory of general relativity and quantum

A newly discovered black hole with a mass 3 billion times that of the sun is growing by rapidly consuming matter and has powered the most luminous quasar for 9 billion years.

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The fastest-growing black hole of the last 9 billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU).

Black holes are the densest, most mysterious objects in the universe. These super-compressed objects are millions or billions of times larger than our own Sun, with gravitational pulls so great that not even light can escape. But not all black holes are created equal. Some are larger than others and, while they all absorb the […]