black holes

‘Nearest black hole to Earth discovered’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 7, 2020
Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth.

By David Aragorn
Black hole dance partners blast out flares brighter than a trillion stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2020
After NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an intense flare, right on cue in 2019, astronomers can finally claim to have solved this mystery

By David Aragorn
This star survived a close call with a black hole. Eventually, it will become a planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 29, 2020
A red giant star strayed too close to a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 250 million light-years away.

By David Aragorn
This black-hole collision just made gravitational waves even more interesting 0
- Space
- April 24, 2020
An unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin.

By David Aragorn
A star orbiting the Milky Way’s giant black hole confirms Einstein was right 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2020
Decades of observations revealed the rotation of the star’s elliptical orbit

By David Aragorn
Scientists capture image of black hole emitting high-energy jets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2020
Detailed image taken by Event Horizon Telescope of black hole 5bn light years away

By David Aragorn
Nasa and ESA find ‘cosmic killer’ black hole that could solve mystery 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2020
Newly-discovered black hole could be the long hoped-for ‘missing link’

By David Aragorn
Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Found in Outskirts of Lenticular Galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 3, 2020
A bright X-ray source in a massive star cluster in the outskirts of 6dFGS gJ215022.2-055059, a barred lenticular galaxy located about 806 million light-years away from Earth, is an intermediate-mass black hole, according to a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

By David Aragorn
ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 31, 2020
Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The team found that the disruption is caused by young powerful jets ejected from a supermassive black hole residing at the center of the host galaxy. This result will cast light on the mystery of the evolutionary process of galaxies in the early Universe.

By David Aragorn
Black Hole Simulations Show That Just Three Particles Can Break Time Symmetry 0
- Earth Mysteries
- March 26, 2020
Time has a precise direction.

By David Aragorn