Black holes are famous for sucking in everything that crosses their event horizons, including light. So, why do astronomers see energetic radiation coming from the environment of a black hole in an X-ray binary system? It’s a good question…
By using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.
A tiny fraction of known black holes emit X-ray signals that resemble a human "heartbeat." Now, new research may finally explain the strange phenomenon.
The government's "black hole" could be bigger than the £22bn it has claimed as cabinet ministers are being pressured to scrap projects immediately to fill it, Sky News understands.
A recent study underscores the dynamic nature of black holes and extends similar thermodynamic characteristics to Extremely Compact Objects, advancing our comprehension of their behavior in quantum gravity scenarios. A paper titled…
Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are back with their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. Today they discuss the fallout around the government’s decision to suspend 30 arms…
Sky News' deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard are back with their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes.
Cosmologists have long hypothesized that the conditions of the early universe could have caused the formation of black holes not long after the Big Bang. These "primordial black holes" have a much wider mass range than those that formed in…
This week, the Hubble Space Telescope captivates us with a stunning image of the spiral galaxy IC 4709, located 240 million light-years away in the constellation Telescopium. The image reveals a brilliant core powered by a massive black…
Council tax could soar by up to 11 per cent to help plug a funding black hole of around £400million - with two-thirds of local authorities planning increases.
In a groundbreaking study using the world’s leading supercomputers, researchers have significantly enhanced our understanding of black hole accretion disks. These disks, essential for observing black holes indirectly, were simulated with…
Cosmologists have long hypothesized that the conditions of the early universe could have caused the formation of black holes not long after the Big Bang. These ‘primordial black holes’ have a much wider mass range than those that formed in…