Using 3D Printing in Search for Black Holes
An X-ray telescope designed to search for supermassive black holes could be built using a novel 3D-printing technique called plasma metal deposition. The ESA space…
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Beyond Qubits: Key Components for a Qutrit-Based Quantum Computer Demonstrated
Team led by Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists builds a new type of quantum processor capable of information scrambling like that theorized within black holes….
Violent Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions May Help Settle Dispute Over Universe’s Expansion
Studying the violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars may soon provide a new measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, helping to resolve a…
Testing Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity From the Shadows and Collisions of Black Holes
General relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, is best tested at its most extreme — close to the event horizon of a black hole. This regime…
Supermassive Black Holes Like to Eat, but Have a Variety of Table Manners
All supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies appear to have periods when they swallow matter from their close surroundings. But that is about…
“The Unicorn” – Closest Black Hole to Earth Ever Discovered
Astronomers dub it “The Unicorn,” call it something special. Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record – and the closest one…
How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Uncover Solitary Black Holes
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide an unprecedented window into the infrared universe when it launches in the mid-2020s. One of the mission’s…
NASA’s Gravity Assist: Black Hole Mysteries
What is a black hole? How do we study them when we can’t see them? Astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center joins…
Hypnotic New NASA Visualization Probes the Light-Bending Dance of Binary Black Holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a new NASA visualization. The movie…
Ultralight Bosons: Fast-Spinning Black Holes Narrow the Search for Dark Matter Particles
Certain ultralight bosons would be expected to put the brakes on black holes, but new results show no such slowdown. Ultralight bosons are hypothetical particles…
Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole Across the Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement…
Mystery About How Particles Behave Outside a Black Hole Photon Sphere Solved With String Theory
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and Project Researcher Matthew Dodelson on…
Early Universe Explosion Reveals Elusive “Goldilocks” Black Hole
Black Hole Seeds Key to Galaxies Behemoths A new black hole breaks the record — not for being the smallest or the biggest — but…
Astronomers’ Polarized Image Shows Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Black Hole
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light. MIT Haystack Observatory is one of the 13 stakeholder institutions that constitute the Event…
Powerful Magnetic Fields Surrounding Black Hole Are Strong Enough to Resist Gravity
Wits University astrophysicists are the only two scientists on African continent that contributed to the study. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, a multinational team…
Event Horizon Telescope Images Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87’s Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object…
Record-Breaking Jet of Particles Spied From a Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe
Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles from a supermassive black hole in the early Universe, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory….
Piercing Through a Galaxy’s Dusty Core to Uncover the Secrets of an Active Supermassive Black Hole
Researchers using NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will map and model the core of nearby galaxy Centaurus A. As technology has improved over the…