NASA's Hubble captures massive black hole creating trail of new stars
1 year, 11 months ago

NASA's Hubble captures massive black hole creating trail of new stars

Hindustan Times  

A huge black hole is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, space scientists say. "We think we're seeing a wake behind the black hole where the gas cools and is able to form stars," said Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University. "Gas in front of it gets shocked because of this supersonic, very high-velocity impact of the black hole moving through the gas," said van Dokkum. The working theory is that two galaxies probably merged about 50 million years earlier, bringing together two supermassive black holes, which whirled around each other harmoniously.

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Supermassive Black Hole emits rare double flash: Scientists revealed the mystery
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supermassive Black Hole emits rare double flash: Scientists revealed the mystery

India TV News  

As per the recent discovery of astronomers, it was witnessed that the extraordinary cosmic event involves a supermassive black hole which is approximately 408 million light-years away. This black hole is situated in the galaxy WISEA J122045.05+493304.7 and consumed one star from a binary star system, which has caused a rare double-flash tidal disruption event. Scientists propose that this phenomenon …

The enormous stellar black hole hiding in Earth's backyard: Scientists discover a huge void in the Milky Way that's 33 times as massive as the Sun
11 months, 2 weeks ago

The enormous stellar black hole hiding in Earth's backyard: Scientists discover a huge void in the Milky Way that's 33 times as massive as the Sun

Daily Mail  

With their ability to gobble up entire planets, black holes must be the most feared objects in the universe. Dr Panuzzo and colleagues say Gaia BH3 is a 'stellar black hole', so it's on the lowest classification when it comes to measuring the mass of black holes. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia …

Star ‘Repeatedly Shredded, Consumed By Black Hole’ Observed By Astronomers
1 year, 6 months ago

Star ‘Repeatedly Shredded, Consumed By Black Hole’ Observed By Astronomers

News 18  

Although researchers and scientists are constantly studying the universe, what we know about the great cosmos is only 5 per cent while the rest 95 per cent remains a big question mark. According to a report by The Guardian, a black hole located about 500 light years away has been detected by astronomers to have “repeatedly shredded and consumed” a …

Supermassive black hole, nibbling away on a star, discovered by NASA's Swift telescope
1 year, 6 months ago

Supermassive black hole, nibbling away on a star, discovered by NASA's Swift telescope

ABC  

Some 500 million light-years from Earth, a star similar to our Sun is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time. Key points: NASA's Swift observatory has spotted a black hole snacking on a Sun-like star The star's unusual orbit sees it stripped of gas every time it gets close to the black hole It provides a new system …

Rapidly growing black hole found, could provide clues on how massive galaxies first evolved
2 years, 1 month ago

Rapidly growing black hole found, could provide clues on how massive galaxies first evolved

The Hindu  

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly growing black hole in one of the most extreme galaxies known in the very early Universe, according to a new study. Using observations taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a radio observatory sited in Chile, the team have determined that the galaxy, named COS-87259, containing this new supermassive black hole is very extreme, forming …

Space telescope spots massive galaxies near cosmic dawn and blows astronomers’ minds
2 years, 1 month ago

Space telescope spots massive galaxies near cosmic dawn and blows astronomers’ minds

LA Times  

This image from NASA and the European Space Agency shows images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500 to 800 million years after the big bang. Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the big bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.” …

Watch | What a black hole looks like
2 years, 10 months ago

Watch | What a black hole looks like

The Hindu  

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope facility, a collaboration of over 300 researchers, revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is four million times the mass of our Sun and is 27,000 light years from us. Astronomers have called this “the first direct image of …

Nasa releases never before seen visuals of 22 black holes | Watch
2 years, 10 months ago

Nasa releases never before seen visuals of 22 black holes | Watch

India Today  

Black holes, the dark abyss found at the center of every galaxy with such strong gravity that even light does not escape, have fascinated astronomers the world over. Stars that are born with a mass that is more than 20 times that of the Sun end up becoming black holes as it collapses. Watch black holes here Nasa said that …

Nasa finds black hole giving birth to stars
3 years, 2 months ago

Nasa finds black hole giving birth to stars

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted one such black hole in the galaxy known as Henize 2-10, which …

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed
4 years ago

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed

Daily Mail  

The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 has been photographed in polarised light, revealing the magnetic field and its interactions at the edge of this massive stellar phenomenon for the first time. Using the Event Horizon Telescope, an international team of astronomers measured the polarisation - a signature of magnetic fields - close to the edge of …

Scientists Capture the Exact Moment a Massive Black Hole Devoured a Star the Size of the Sun
4 years, 5 months ago

Scientists Capture the Exact Moment a Massive Black Hole Devoured a Star the Size of the Sun

News 18  

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our Sun, releasing images Monday showing the devastating process in unprecedented detail. “The idea of a black hole ‘sucking in’ a nearby star sounds like science fiction,” said Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, lead author …

Space: Scientists capture a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole
4 years, 5 months ago

Space: Scientists capture a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole

Daily Mail  

The burst of light from a nearby star falling into a supermassive black hole — after being torn into shreds in a process called 'spaghettification' — has been recorded. Scroll down for video The burst of light from a nearby star falling into a supermassive black hole — after being torn into shreds in a process called 'spaghettification' — has …

‘Missing link’ black hole discovered by Hubble
4 years, 11 months ago

‘Missing link’ black hole discovered by Hubble

CNN  

CNN — Astronomers have long studied supermassive black holes and smaller black holes that form when massive stars implode, but they have searched for intermediate-mass black holes for years. Now, thanks to observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found their “missing link” to understand how black holes evolve. The nature of these mid-range black holes makes them harder …

Black hole rips apart a star, scientists managed to snag a look at the violent event
5 years, 6 months ago

Black hole rips apart a star, scientists managed to snag a look at the violent event

Firstpost  

Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating an extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA’s planet-hunting telescope. The U.S. space agency’s orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, revealed the detailed timeline of a star 375 million light-years away warping …

Homicide in space: NASA's TESS spots black hole tearing a star to shreds
5 years, 6 months ago

Homicide in space: NASA's TESS spots black hole tearing a star to shreds

India Today  

For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. "TESS data let us see exactly when this destructive event, named ASASSN-19bt, started to get brighter, which we’ve never been able to do before," said Thomas Holoien, at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, …

Hubble spies something mysterious around a supermassive black hole
5 years, 8 months ago

Hubble spies something mysterious around a supermassive black hole

CNN  

CNN — There’s something unusual happening at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, and the Hubble Space Telescope caught a good look. The disc is deep within the black hole’s gravitational field, which has altered light in a way that astronomers can actually see what’s happening close to the black hole. Hubble was able to measure the material …

Science fact: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Science fact: Astronomers reveal first image of a black hole

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Humanity got its first glimpse Wednesday of the cosmic place of no return: a black hole. The image, assembled from data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, shows light and gas swirling around the lip of a supermassive black hole, a monster of the universe whose existence was theorized by Einstein more than a century ago …

Black hole image: Scientists reveal first ever photo from Event Horizon telescope – as it happened
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole image: Scientists reveal first ever photo from Event Horizon telescope – as it happened

The Independent  

✕ Close Scientists unveil first ever picture of black hole Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An international scientific …

Scientists unveil first image ever made of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Scientists unveil first image ever made of a black hole

Live Mint  

Brussels: Scientists have revealed the first-ever glimpse of a super-massive black hole today, as the Event Horizon Telescope released the first results of its findings, in a ‘ground-breaking’ discovery that proved Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The collaboration of scientists reveals what is called the “event horizon,” the boundary at the edge of a black hole where the gravitational …

Astronomers spot giant black hole, 20 million times massive than Sun, eating up star
6 years, 9 months ago

Astronomers spot giant black hole, 20 million times massive than Sun, eating up star

India TV News  

Astronomers spot giant black hole, 20 million times massive than Sun, eating up star The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, in a pair of colliding galaxies 150 million light-years from Earth. The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array, in a pair of colliding galaxies …

Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole in the universe
6 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole in the universe

CNN  

CNN — Astronomers have found the fastest-growing black hole ever seen in the universe, and they’re calling this one a monster with an appetite. Going back in time about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang using the speed limit formula, Wolf said this black hole must have started out as the size of 5,000 suns. “So, either black holes …

Black hole spotted 'choking' on star 300m light years away
8 years ago

Black hole spotted 'choking' on star 300m light years away

Daily Mail  

Scientists have spotted a black hole 300 million light years away that’s ‘choking’ on its stellar dinner. Observations with two different telescopes have revealed a bizarre pattern in the energy of a ‘tidal disruption flare’ in the distant galaxy, which occurs when a black hole devours a nearby star. Further investigation showed evidence of a repeating pattern of fluctuation, suggesting …

Giant Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA’s Telescope
8 years, 11 months ago

Giant Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA’s Telescope

The Quint  

Astronomers from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii have uncovered a supermassive black hole in an unlikely location, indicating that these monster objects may be more common than once thought. The near-record breaking black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, was discovered in the centre of a galaxy, in a sparsely populated area of the universe. “The …

One of the largest supermassive black holes ever seen is spotted 200 million light-years away
8 years, 11 months ago

One of the largest supermassive black holes ever seen is spotted 200 million light-years away

Daily Mail  

Supermassive black holes patrolling our local region of space may be more common than previously thought after astronomers made a surprise discovery. The supermassive black hole found in NGC 1600 is one of the first successes of the project, and Professor Ma says this proves the value of a systematic search of the night sky. The Coma Cluster is home …

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