When Stars Fall Prey to Black Holes: Unraveling the Mystery of Tidal Disruption Events
The Universe is a violent place where here even a star’s life can be cut short. This happens when a star finds itself in a…
The Universe is a violent place where here even a star’s life can be cut short. This happens when a star finds itself in a…
New research led by Newcastle University and published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed that supermassive black holes obscured by…
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the most remote active supermassive black hole known to date, situated in the galaxy CEERS 1019, which existed…
They are called UFOs, but aliens have nothing to do with them. They are the ultra-fast outflows: space winds that emerge from the surroundings of…
Penn State researchers have recently characterized over a hundred blazars – far-off, dynamic galaxies hosting a central supermassive black hole that propels potent jets –…
Radio telescope observations of Milky Way pulsars reveal spacetime distortions likely caused by enormous gravitational waves rolling through everything in existence You can’t see or…
With Webb, a slew of other distant black holes and early galaxies also popped into view for the first time. It’s a bonanza! The universe…
Scientists used new technology to produce an unprecedented image of both the accretion process and the jet of the Messier 87 black hole. Utilizing the…
After 15 years of carefully observing stars called pulsars throughout our galaxy, the NANOGrav collaboration has “heard” the perpetual chorus of gravitational waves rippling through…
Astrophysicists have discovered a new mechanism for star destruction and gamma-ray burst generation, originating from stellar collisions in the dense environments near supermassive black holes…
Millimeter-VLBI image of the jet and the black hole shadow in Messier 87, obtained with the GMVA array including ALMA, the Greenland Telescope, and the…
First Detection of Secondary Black Hole in OJ 287 Binary System An international team of astronomers observed the second one of the two supermassive black…
Research shows Stephen Hawking was mostly correct about black holes evaporating via Hawking radiation. However, the study highlights that the event horizon isn’t essential for…
Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole. New radio telescope images reveal hundreds of filaments along the galactic plane, each measuring…
New methods will allow for better tests of Einstein’s general theory of relativity using LIGO data. Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity describes how the…
Contradicting long-standing theories, a recent study has found that x-ray emissions from black hole jets vary over short periods, and occur throughout the jets rather…
A Dark Central Mass is Lurking at the Hub of a Glittering Stellar Island Gravitational traps in space, black holes, come in different sizes. Or…
Theoretical physicists have discovered a new space-time structure called a “topological soliton.” Resembling black holes to distant observers, these structures are actually defects in the…