Researchers from RIKEN and JAXA have used observations from the ALMA radio observatory located in northern Chile and managed by an international consortium including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) to measure, for the first time, the strength of magnetic fields near two supermassive black holes at the centers of an important type of active galaxies.
Scientists added 4 new sets of spacetime ripples to their inventory
Black holes, while fascinating, are hardly a new discovery – but a black hole spinning at one of the highest speeds ever, according to the Hindustan Times, is a completely different story – especially when there have only ever been four others like it.
The observations confirm that the supermassive object really is a black hole
It’s the first time an effect of general relativity has been observed in such an environment
A swarm of thousands of black holes may surround the giant black hole at the heart of our galaxy, a new study finds.
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that wandered too close to the cosmic monster.
A new study using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory indicates that the neutron star merger that became the gravitational wave source, GW170817, likely created the lowest mass black hole known.
New research finds potentially thousands of black holes orbiting within a few light-years of the galactic center.
Quantum weirdness FTW.
