black holes

4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 2, 2019
Event Horizon Telescope data are giving scientists an image of the Milky Way’s behemoth

By David Aragorn
Physicists Use Seven-Qubit Quantum Computer to Simulate Scrambling inside Black Holes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 8, 2019
A team of physicists from the Joint Quantum Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of California Berkeley and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics has implemented a test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles. The team’s experiment, carried out on a group of seven ions, demonstrated a new way to distinguish between scrambling and true information loss.

By David Aragorn
Hiding black hole found 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 2, 2019
Astronomers have detected a stealthy black hole from its effects on an interstellar gas cloud. This intermediate mass black hole is one of over 100 million quiet black holes expected to be lurking in our Galaxy. These results provide a new method to search for other hidden black holes and help us understand the growth and evolution of black holes.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s NICER Mission Maps ‘Light Echoes’ of New Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2019
Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload aboard the International Space Station.

By David Aragorn
How to escape a black hole: Simulations provide new clues about powerful plasma jets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2019
Interplay of twisting magnetic field, ‘negative-energy’ particles

By David Aragorn
Black hole radio jet ‘pointed directly at Earth’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2019
The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way seems to be pointing a radio jet directly towards us.

By David Aragorn
Birth of massive black holes in the early universe revealed 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2019
The light released from around the first massive black holes in the universe is so intense that it is able to reach telescopes across the entire expanse of the universe.

By David Aragorn
Scientists May Have Witnessed The Birth of a Black Hole For The First Time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 12, 2019
A bright flare nicknamed “The Cow” may have been the birth of a black hole or neutron star.

By David Aragorn
Aging Voyager 1 spacecraft undermines idea that dark matter is tiny black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2019
Humanity’s most far-flung spacecraft, NASA’s 41-year-old Voyager 1, has poked a hole in a long-shot theory of dark matter.

By David Aragorn
Matter Sucked in by Black Holes May Travel into the Future, Get Spit Back Out 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 19, 2018
Black holes are among the most mysterious places in the universe; locations where the very fabric of space and time are warped so badly that not even light can escape from them.

By David Aragorn