NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For months, space scientists scratched their heads and crunched the data. Then on Monday, December 8th, NASA reported it…
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and XRISM, astronomers caught the blast unfold…
A new Healthwatch England survey shows that 14% of GP referrals for specialist care are delayed, lost, or rejected, leaving thousands of patients waiting indefinitely for treatment.
Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 km/s) - one fifth of light speed.
At the same time that Vera Rubin was turning cosmology upside down with conclusive evidence for the existence of dark matter, Stephen Hawking was doing…Stephen Hawking things.
Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark matter near massive black holes. New research from scientists at the University of Amsterdam outlines how…
Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye…
Astronomers have acquired evidence that Omega Centauri, the largest-known globular cluster in the Milky Way, hosts an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). These elusive objects should exist, according to theory, but have been difficult to…
Astronomers have observed celestial objects that manage to survive the supermassive black hole located at the center of our galaxy. And it seems that the environment around this colossal structure is calmer than expected.
New research and observations with the VLT's ERIS instrument show that some stars are following predictable orbits near Sagitarrius A-star, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. This goes against the established idea that the black hole…
Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of computational astrophysicists has…
A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including Hawking’s area theorem and Einstein’s ringdown behavior. The findings also provide the strongest support yet that real…