Cosmic Search Continues for Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
A new study led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), at Monash University, developed a…
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Student Clears Up “Massive” Black Hole Confusion
Black holes are among the most enigmatic objects in our universe. These mysterious celestial bodies do not emit any light of their own and are…
Quasi-Periodic Flickers in Millimeter-Waves Detected From Heart of Milky Way
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*. The team…
New Clues Discovered About the Cosmic Missing Link: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
A team of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave discovery (OzGrav) recently published a study revealing something unexpected about black holes:…
Why Mysterious Cosmic Clouds Form Near Black Holes
Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word “cloud” no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the…
Russian Astrophysicists Trace Neutrinos – Mysterious “Ghost Particles” – From Where No One Had Expected
Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black holes in far-off quasars. Russian astrophysicists have come close to solving the mystery of where high-energy neutrinos…
Three Million Light-Year Long Bridge Between Two Galaxy Clusters Warped by Supermassive Black Hole
A new study, based on data from ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories, sheds new light on a three million light-year long bridge of…
New Possible Explanation of Strange Black Hole Merger Revealed
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal an alternative explanation of the recently announce black hole merger. The paper…
Astronomers Discover Hidden Black Hole “Near” Earth – Closest Ever Found to Our Solar System
Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye. A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has…
Future Gravitational Wave Detectors to Detect Millions of Black Holes & the Evolution of the Universe
Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of the Universe. On August 17, 2017, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations first…
Dancing Black Hole Collision Unleashes a Flash of Light Brighter Than a Trillion Stars
The recently retired infrared observatory was the only telescope to spot a far-off flash of light that holds clues about the physical characteristics of these…
Star Captured by Supermassive Black Hole’s Gravity – And Survives!
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to…
Dance of Destruction: New Insights Into Eccentric Binary Black Holes
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal the eccentricity of binary black holes: the shape of the orbit formed…
Black Hole Bends Light Back on Itself – Proves Theory Predicted More Than 40 Years Ago
You may have heard that nothing escapes the gravitational grasp of a black hole, not even light. This is true in the immediate vicinity of…
Step Toward Grand Unification Theory: Calculating Hawking Radiation at the Event Horizon of a Black Hole
A RUDN University physicist has developed a formula for calculating Hawking radiation on the event horizon of a black hole, which allows physicists to determine…
Hubble Finds “Missing Link” Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star That Passed Too Close [Video]
High-resolution imaging reveals black hole’s hideout in extra-galactic star cluster. Like detectives carefully building a case, astronomers gathered evidence and eliminated suspects until they found…
Exploring the Mystery of Black Holes: Scientists Release Stellar Code to the Public
Today, team COMPAS (Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics) has announced the first public beta release of their rapid binary population synthesis code (available…
Evidence of Elusive “Missing Link” in Black Hole Evolution Found by Hubble Space Telescope
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this…