Herschel Solves Decades-Old Mystery About Starburst-Driven Superwinds
Astronomers have used ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory to solve a decades-old mystery about the origin of powerful cool gas winds in the hot environs of…
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Astronomers Measure Magnetic Field of Black Hole V404 Cygni
Scientists measure the magnetic field of the black hole binary V404 Cygni, revealing a significantly weaker magnetic field than previously thought. Black holes are famous…
Astronomers Reveal Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole Ever Observed
A team of astronomers, including two from MIT, has detected the most distant supermassive black hole ever observed. The black hole sits in the center…
Supermassive Black Holes ‘Photobomb’ the Andromeda Galaxy
Correction: A follow-up paper by Barth & Stern (2018) has shown that the evidence for periodic light variations presented in Dorn-Wallenstein et al. (2017) and…
Researchers Measure the Delay Between the X-Rays and the Visible Light of a Black Hole Jet
Nothing can emerge from a black hole. Yet, in nature, we find ultra-powerful jets of energy that shoot out from the immediate vicinities of growing…
ALMA Reveals Infant Stars Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed…
Physicist Challenges the Idea That Time Had a Beginning
“I believe the Big Bang never happened,” said Juliano César Silva Neves, a physicist at the University of Campinas’s Mathematics, Statistics & Scientific Computation Institute…
Artist’s Rendering of Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-14li
This artist’s rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass black hole was torn apart. The…
Gravitational Waves From Merging Supermassive Black Holes Will Be Detected Within 10 years
A New survey of fast-spinning pulsar stars offers a better estimate of when astronomers will first detect gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers…
XSEDE ECSS Program Helps Probe Space Oddities
Black holes make for a great space mystery. They’re so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole once it gets close…
NuSTAR and Herschel Probe Black Hole Jet Mystery
Using NASA’s NuSTAR Space Telescope and the William Herschel Observatory, astronomers have been able to measure the distance that particles in jets travel before they…
Scientists Find Five New Pairs of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
By combining data from different telescopes, astronomers have discovered five new pairs of merging supermassive black holes. Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual…
LIGO and Virgo Detect Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Merger
Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors….
‘Primordial Black Holes’ Might Explain How Gold, Platinum and Uranium Are Created
New research on black holes believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how gold, platinum and uranium are created. A long-standing…
Scientists Provide a Theory on How the Universe Became Filled with Light
After observing a nearby galaxy from which ultraviolet light is escaping, astronomers hypothesize that black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies and allowed light to…
Hands-On Tests at Sandia’s Z Machine Contradict Black Hole Models
Hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine contradict a long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes. Z, the most…
ESO’s VLT Discovers New Way to Fuel Black Holes
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” show a new way to fuel…
Astronomers Spot “Indigestion” in Supermassive Black Hole
A new multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole’s case of “indigestion.” The new research…
