Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Flings Star Away at 6,000,000 km/h
An international study has discovered a star traveling at more than six million km/h through the Milky Way after being flung from the center of…
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Scientists Discover What Happens When Nearly Extreme Black Holes Attempt to Regrow Hair
The black holes of Einstein’s theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge. Since…
Gravitational Wave Detector Breakthrough Dampens Quantum Noise for Precise Measurements
Squeeze leads to stellar-mass black hole collision precision. Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of…
Black Hole Mergers: Cooking With Gas and a 112,000 MPH Kick
New study proposes light signature for detecting black hole mergers. Gravitational wave detectors are finding black hole mergers in the universe at the rate of…
Star Ejected by Supermassive Black Hole at Heart of Milky Way at Over 3.5 Million MPH [Video]
Runaway Star Ejected From the Galactic Heart of Darkness Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h (~3.7 million m/h),…
Massive, Spinning Black Holes Could Be the Result of ‘Pac-Man-Like’ Mergers
Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10 black hole mergers to date, but they are still trying to explain the origins of those mergers….
Holographic Duality Yields Breakthrough in Black Hole Physics
A group of Skoltech researchers led by Professor Anatoly Dymarsky studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a…
Cosmic Mystery Propels Scientists to Discover a New Class of Black Holes Thought Impossible
Potential new class of black holes that are smaller than researchers believed possible. Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of…
New Results on Black Hole and Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries From Insight-HXMT
Scientists with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) team presented their new results on black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries during a press conference…
How to Spot a Wormhole – Physicists Describe a Technique for Detecting Spacetime Bridges
In a theoretical study, physicists propose that perturbations in the orbit of stars near supermassive black holes could be used to detect wormholes. A new…
25-Year-Old Astrophysics Puzzle Explained by Powerful Jets From Supermassive Black Holes?
“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a long-standing puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. The scientists used sophisticated…
Super Spirals Spin Super Fast: Dark Matter Tugs Massive Spiral Galaxies to Breakneck Speeds
You’ve probably never noticed it, but our solar system is moving along at quite a clip. Stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way,…
Astronomers Unexpected Discovery Could Explain Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Early Universe
At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers…
Spectroscopic Survey Reveals the Nature of Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei
Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus, one whose mass exceeds a million solar-masses. When material actively accretes onto the SMBH,…
State-of-the-Art Cameras Reveal Violent Flaring at the Heart of a Black Hole System [Video]
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing black…
The Sun Won’t Become a Black Hole – Here’s Why
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to…
Black Holes Stunt Growth of Dwarf Galaxies – Astronomers Surprised by 2,000,000 MPH Winds
UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formation. Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Penetrate Space Dust to Reveal Milky Way’s Center
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions…