Scientists Shed New Light on Black Hole Development
Using a large array of satellites and space observatories, astronomers discovered that winds blowing from a supermassive black hole in NGC 5548 work to obscure…
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Theoretical Physicists Reveal the Turbulent Nature of Black Holes
A new study from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics reveals the turbulent nature of black holes, showing that gravitational fields around black holes might…
New Study Measures the Strength of Magnetic Fields Near Black Holes
New research from the Berkeley Lab systematically measures the strength of magnetic fields near black holes for the first time, revealing that the measured magnetic…
Fermi Reveals Distinctive Properties of Blazars
A team of astronomers has used Fermi data to reveal how blazars are distributed throughout the universe and to show the distinctive properties that define…
New Data from NASA Conflicts with Black Hole ‘Doughnut’ Theory
New data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer reveals a new feature about active black holes, leaving astronomers to reexamining a decades-old theory about the…
Three Recent Black Hole Events and How They Shape Our Universe
A new article from the Smithsonian Magazine takes a look at three recent black hole events and how they shape our universe. Near the middle…
NASA Supercomputer Simulation Shows Neutron Stars Ripping Each Other Apart to Form a Black Hole
A newly released video from NASA shows a pair of neutron stars colliding and ripping each other apart to form a black hole. This supercomputer…
Astronomers Reveal Relationship Between the Color of a Galaxy and the Size of Its Bulge
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to group together over half a million galaxies of all different colors, shapes, and masses, new research…
Supercomputers Help Researchers Understand Black Holes
Using supercomputers like Stampede at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and Kraken at the National Institute for Computational Sciences, researchers try to predict and better…
Astronomers Ready for G2’s Encounter with Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*
As the gas cloud, called G2, edges closer to the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, astronomers at Northwestern University are hoping to learn new information…
Researchers Discover Young Star Clusters around a Black Hole in Galaxy NGC 2110
Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered huge young star clusters around a black hole in the center of galaxy NGC 2110. Huge young…
New Data Helps Astronomers Piece Together the Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are piecing together the evolution of supermassive black holes. How do you grow a supermassive black…
Neutron Stars and Their Similarities with Black Holes
New research shows the similarities that neutron star have with black holes. For astrophysicists neutron stars are extremely complex astronomical objects. Research conducted with the…
Researchers Model the Workings of an X-ray Binary Star
Using ten years’ worth of optical, infrared and X-ray data on LMC X-3, astronomers developed a model that can successfully explain the workings of an…
Astronomers View Dense Disk and Bright Funnel at the Center of the Circinus Galaxy
An international team of astronomers has viewed a dense disk and a bright funnel at the center of the Circinus galaxy. A research team led…
Astronomers Measure Distant Black Hole’s Spin
Using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar that is located 6 billion light…
Astronomers Discover a New Super-Powered Small Black Hole
Using multiple telescopes, researchers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered a new super-powered small black hole. A team of Australian and…
Researchers Study Mysterious Gamma Ray Source with No Known Counterpart
Using the VERITAS gamma-ray telescope, astronomers studied a mysterious VHE gamma-ray source from the constellation of Cygnus that has no known counterpart at other wavelengths….
