Using supercomputers like Stampede at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and Kraken at the National…
Browsing: Black Hole
A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing—not even light—can escape its pull. Formed from the remnants of massive stars that have undergone gravitational collapse, black holes come in various sizes, from stellar-mass to supermassive varieties found at the centers of galaxies. They are defined by their event horizon, the boundary beyond which no information can return. While black holes themselves are invisible, their presence is inferred through their effects on nearby matter and light. Ongoing research explores their role in galaxy formation, gravitational waves, and the fundamental nature of space and time.
As the gas cloud, called G2, edges closer to the supermassive black hole Sgr A*,…
Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology have discovered huge young star clusters around a black…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are piecing together the evolution of…
New research shows the similarities that neutron stars have with black holes. For astrophysicists, neutron…
Using ten years’ worth of optical, infrared, and X-ray data on LMC X-3, astronomers developed…
An international team of astronomers has viewed a dense disk and a bright funnel at…
Using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, astronomers directly measured the spin of a supermassive black…
Using multiple telescopes, researchers from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered a…
Using the VERITAS gamma-ray telescope, astronomers studied a mysterious VHE gamma-ray source from the constellation…
A newly completed statistical study of the optical and infrared properties of 330,811 galaxies traces…
Using RXTE satellite data, researchers have revealed a dozen instances where X-ray signals from active…
A newly published study details what happens during the destruction of a star as it…
Astrophysicists re-create and explain nearly all the components seen in the X-ray spectra of stellar-mass…
A new theoretical paper from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics finds there is…
Using archived data, astronomers have put together a new Chandra image of Centaurus A and…
A newly published study reveals that the early universe “warmed up” later than previously thought.…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to study active supermassive black holes in merging galaxies, revealing…