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 but confirmed only indirectly over the decades. Three years ago, scientists using an extraordinarily sensitive observing system heard the sound of two much smaller black holes merging to create a gravitational wave, as Einstein predicted. Black holes are the “most extreme environment in the known universe,” Broderick said, a violent, churning place of “gravity run amok.” Unlike smaller black holes, which come from collapsed stars, supermassive black holes are mysterious in origin. The same team has gathered even more data on a black hole in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, but scientists said the object is so jumpy they don’t have a good picture yet.

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NASA telescope captures the most detailed glimpse yet of the black hole in the middle of our galaxy
1 month, 1 week ago

NASA telescope captures the most detailed glimpse yet of the black hole in the middle of our galaxy

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. Scientists announced Tuesday that the telescope had given scientists the longest and most detailed glimpse thus far …

Scans of seemingly empty space reveal black holes not far from earth
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Scans of seemingly empty space reveal black holes not far from earth

The Hindu  

Astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole named Gaia BH3 hiding close to the earth, the third of its kind. If Gaia and Kepler’s third law together reveal a luminous star orbiting a dark object whose mass exceeds this threshold, it must be a black hole. Gaia’s first black hole On June 13, 2022, Gaia scientists published the spacecraft’s third …

Space telescopes stumble on rule-breaking black hole in early universe
2 months, 1 week ago

Space telescopes stumble on rule-breaking black hole in early universe

The Hindu  

An international team of researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray observatory has discovered a bizarre black hole that may provide insights into the genesis and growth of supermassive black holes. According to some traditional models, Suh said, “supermassive black holes are thought to form from the death of the first star, i.e. light seeds with …

Famous picture of black hole in our galaxy might not be accurate, research says
5 months ago

Famous picture of black hole in our galaxy might not be accurate, research says

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. Read our privacy policy The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of …

Nasa supercomputer reveals what it looks like to fall into a black hole in mind-bending video
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Nasa supercomputer reveals what it looks like to fall into a black hole in mind-bending video

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. Scientists at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland produced the simulation to see how the universe …

Astronomers find black hole 33 times more massive than our Sun – and it is near us
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Astronomers find black hole 33 times more massive than our Sun – and it is near us

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. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, involving UCL researchers, found the black hole, known as Gaia-BH3, which …

A black hole, 33 times the mass of the Sun, found hiding in Milky Way Galaxy
11 months, 2 weeks ago

A black hole, 33 times the mass of the Sun, found hiding in Milky Way Galaxy

Hindustan Times  

In a first, ESA’s Gaia mission researchers have discovered a huge black hole that is of stellar origin, hiding in plain sight in our very own Milky Way Galaxy. The star was actually locked in with a dormant black hole that was huge - about 33 times the size of our Sun. Notably, most stellar-origin black holes in the Milky …

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 …

Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected: Terrifying void gobbles up one Sun every single day, scientists say
1 year, 1 month ago

Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected: Terrifying void gobbles up one Sun every single day, scientists say

Daily Mail  

Astronomers have found the brightest object in the universe – a 'hellish' black hole that consumes a star a day. Described as 'the most hellish place in the universe', the black hole is 12 billion light years away and has a mass roughly 17 billion times that of our solar system's sun. This black hole – fastest-growing black hole ever …

Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is warping space-time - and it could reveal how our galaxy formed
1 year, 4 months ago

Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is warping space-time - and it could reveal how our galaxy formed

Daily Mail  

A supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is spinning so fast it's changing space-time. Black holes are located at the center of nearly all galaxies, with Sagittarius A* being no different - but its rotational speed makes it unique, causing what's known as the Lense-Thirring precession. Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our Milky …

Right again, Einstein! Scientists prove that 'monster' black hole M87 is SPINNING - in breakthrough that could help to unravel the mystery of the universe's most enigmatic objects
1 year, 6 months ago

Right again, Einstein! Scientists prove that 'monster' black hole M87 is SPINNING - in breakthrough that could help to unravel the mystery of the universe's most enigmatic objects

Daily Mail  

Astronomers have for the first time found direct evidence of a black hole spinning. Discovery: Astronomers have for the first time found direct evidence of a black hole spinning Spinning: The discovery was made by studying powerful jets of energy beamed from the first black hole ever imaged by humanity, which sits at the heart of the neighbouring Messier 87 …

Our galaxy's black hole not as sleepy as thought: astronomers
1 year, 9 months ago

Our galaxy's black hole not as sleepy as thought: astronomers

The Hindu  

The supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy is not as dormant as had been thought, a new study shows. The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* -- abbreviated to Sgr A* -- is four million times more massive than the Sun. Sgr A* has "always been seen as a dormant black hole," said Frederic Marin, …

New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole
1 year, 11 months ago

New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole

The Hindu  

Expanding upon the historic first images of black holes, scientists on Wednesday unveiled the first picture showing the violent events unfolding around one of these ravenous cosmic behemoths, including the launching point of a colossal jet of high-energy particles shooting outward into space. The supermassive black hole pictured resides at the center of a relatively nearby galaxy called Messier 87, …

First image of a black hole gets a makeover with AI
1 year, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole gets a makeover with AI

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The first image of a …

First image of a black hole looks sharper after AI makeover
1 year, 11 months ago

First image of a black hole looks sharper after AI makeover

LA Times  

Images of the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy in 2019, left, and in 2023. The first image of a black hole captured four years ago revealed a fuzzy, fiery doughnut-shaped object. The image released in 2019 gave a peek at the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, 53 million light years …

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 …

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 …

Scientists to record first video of black hole, already tried making a movie
2 years, 10 months ago

Scientists to record first video of black hole, already tried making a movie

India Today  

The Event Horizon Telescope, a global network of telescopes that comes together every few years to reveal the darkest corner of our universe is setting its eyes on a new mission. While taking snapshots of the black hole is difficult thanks to the massive distance, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is 27,000 …

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 …

The Milky Way’s dark centre - The Hindu
2 years, 10 months ago

The Milky Way’s dark centre - The Hindu

The Hindu  

In 2020, Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel were given the Nobel prize for showing that there existed, at the centre of the Milky Way, an extremely heavy, invisible object that pulls masses towards it and causes them to speed up enormously. Using this technique, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration had, in 2019, imaged a region called M87*, the black hole …

Explained: What are supermassive black holes, the one which was photographed at the centre of The Milky Way
2 years, 10 months ago

Explained: What are supermassive black holes, the one which was photographed at the centre of The Milky Way

Firstpost  

Astronomers have captured the image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way for the first time. Stellar black holes grow by taking control of other stars or merging with other black holes and becoming a supermassive black hole. A supermassive black hole can have masses equal to billions of suns, so the one that …

Astronomers capture the first-ever image of our own galaxy's supermassive black hole
2 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers capture the first-ever image of our own galaxy's supermassive black hole

Salon  

As one might imagine of a massive, collapsed star within which the laws of physics seemingly break down, black holes occupy a special place in human culture — spurring all kinds of creative science fiction, creative real physics theories, and creative metaphors. RELATED: Astronomers see a big boom when a black hole's magnetic field suddenly flips over "Although we cannot …

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole
2 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The world’s first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers Thursday called a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Black holes gobble up galactic material but Ozel said this one is “eating very little.” It’s the equivalent to a person eating …

Astronomers reveal first image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way galaxy
2 years, 10 months ago

Astronomers reveal first image of black hole at the heart of Milky Way galaxy

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 in press conferences held around the world. In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope made history by releasing the first ever image of a black hole M87* – the black hole at the …

First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed
2 years, 10 months ago

First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

India TV News  

Highlights Global team of radio astronomers reveals first image of supermassive black hole The supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy The results are being published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters A global team of radio astronomers have on Thursday unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole …

Scientists get never-before-seen look at supermassive black hole in our galaxy – and find unknown star nearby
3 years, 3 months ago

Scientists get never-before-seen look at supermassive black hole in our galaxy – and find unknown star nearby

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. Read our privacy policy Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at the supermassive black hole in our …

Massive Black Hole Near Our Milky Way Galaxy Discovered by Scientists
3 years, 3 months ago

Massive Black Hole Near Our Milky Way Galaxy Discovered by Scientists

News 18  

The McDonald Observatory at The University of Texas, Austin has detected an unusually big black hole at the centre of one of the Milky Way's dwarf satellite galaxies. The newly discovered black hole – named Leo I – is around the same size as the Milky Way's suspected black hole. In a statement, UT astronomer Karl Gebhardt, co-author of the …

Black hole found hiding outside the Milky Way – and it could be the first of many more
3 years, 4 months ago

Black hole found hiding outside the Milky Way – and it could be the first of many more

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. Read our privacy policy A black hole has been found hiding just outside our galaxy – and …

Astronomers snap detailed image of plasma jet blasting from supermassive black hole
3 years, 8 months ago

Astronomers snap detailed image of plasma jet blasting from supermassive black hole

ABC  

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope made history when it captured the very first image of a supermassive black hole in the M87 galaxy. Key points: The Event Horizon Telescope has captured images of a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy The images reveal plasma being launched from the black hole in extraordinary detail The jet's features are similar …

Astronomers get unprecedented look at nearby galaxy – and see ‘monstrous’ jet launched by supermassive black hole
3 years, 8 months ago

Astronomers get unprecedented look at nearby galaxy – and see ‘monstrous’ jet launched by supermassive black hole

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. Read our privacy policy Astronomers have captured an unprecedented look at nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A, seeing …

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 …

Astronomers sight wandering huge black hole, but at a safe distance
4 years ago

Astronomers sight wandering huge black hole, but at a safe distance

The Hindu  

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole moving on its own. This is surprising because supermassive black holes usually are not expected to move with respect to the galaxies in whose centres they reside, according to what is known about them so far. Supermassive black holes have masses millions of times the solar mass and inhabit the centres of galaxies. …

Monster black hole 70 times bigger than Sun spotted in our galaxy's backyard
5 years, 4 months ago

Monster black hole 70 times bigger than Sun spotted in our galaxy's backyard

India Today  

A team led by Chinese researchers has spotted a monster black hole with a mass 70 times greater than Sun - toppling the earlier assumption that the mass of an individual black hole in our Galaxy is no more than 20 times that of Sun. Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes - cosmic …

Black hole found by Chinese scientists is a ‘monster’ – and bigger than thought possible
5 years, 4 months ago

Black hole found by Chinese scientists is a ‘monster’ – and bigger than thought possible

CNN  

CNN — Scientists have discovered a “monster black hole” so massive that, in theory, it shouldn’t exist. “Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution,” said Liu Jifeng, head of the team that made the discovery. LB-1’s sheer size suggests that it “was not formed from …

The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is feasting
5 years, 6 months ago

The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is feasting

CNN  

CNN — Earlier this year, astronomers were surprised to spot “unprecedented” changes in the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. “We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole,” said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and co-senior study author. “The big question is whether the …

Breakthrough Prize goes to scientists who captured first image of black hole
5 years, 6 months ago

Breakthrough Prize goes to scientists who captured first image of black hole

India Today  

An international group of astrophysicists, who captured the first image of the black hole back in the galaxy Messier 87 in April, received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics on Thursday. Details: https://t.co/WOjLdY76ve pic.twitter.com/4PhH1bfHxc NASA April 10, 2019 Black holes are extraordinary cosmic objects with enormous masses but extremely compact sizes. The supermassive black hole that the team captured …

How scientists created the first ever image of a black hole
5 years, 11 months ago

How scientists created the first ever image of a black hole

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If you needed to see to believe, then thank the Event Horizon Telescope, which recently …

Black hole snapped: How the picture of one of the universe’s most secretive objects was clicked
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole snapped: How the picture of one of the universe’s most secretive objects was clicked

The Hindu  

The story so far: In 2017, a consortium of institutions around the world decided to pool the scanning abilities of eight telescopes — from Hawaii to the South Pole — and focus on getting a picture of a black hole. While black holes themselves are invisible, the region around them — the luminous frenzy of charged particles from matter in …

First ever photo of black hole revealed by astronomers, changing our understanding of the entire universe
5 years, 11 months ago

First ever photo of black hole revealed by astronomers, changing our understanding of the entire universe

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. “We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole.” Jessica Dempsey, a co-discoverer from the …

Capturing a black hole, living in space and a new human relative: This week in space and science
5 years, 11 months ago

Capturing a black hole, living in space and a new human relative: This week in space and science

CNN  

CNN — This week, scientists shared the very first photo of a supermassive black hole, and the much-anticipated final results of NASA’s Twins Study researching longterm spaceflight’s effect on the human body were released. Katie Bouman MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab compared a photo of Bouman among stacks of hard drives to a famous 1969 photo of computer …

Black Hole Image: How Indian Scientists Contributed in This Feat Will Wow You
5 years, 11 months ago

Black Hole Image: How Indian Scientists Contributed in This Feat Will Wow You

The Quint  

Latest images have shown a ring-like structure with a dark central region — the shadow of the Messier 87 black hole. What we see in the latest images are the signatures of particles outside the event horizon and not the inner core of the black hole. The whole thing can be seen as a bright disc of glowing gas in …

"We have seen the gates of hell", Dutch astrophysicist says about first ever black hole pic
5 years, 11 months ago

"We have seen the gates of hell", Dutch astrophysicist says about first ever black hole pic

NL Times  

Astronomers managed to produce the first ever picture of an event horizon - a black hole's edge - by stringing together a global network of radio telescopes. "We have seen the gates of hell at the end of space and time", astrophysicist Heino Falcke of Radboud University in Nijmegen said about the picture at a press conference in Brussels, science …

Meet Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old Harvard graduate behind the world's first black hole image
5 years, 11 months ago

Meet Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old Harvard graduate behind the world's first black hole image

India Today  

April 10, 2019, saw the world getting its first ever image of a black hole. 3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. More info: https://t.co/WITAL1omGl 2016 story: https://t.co/QV7Zf2snEP#EHTblackhole #EventHorizonTelescope pic.twitter.com/u6FBswmGDZ MIT CSAIL April 10, 2019 About the world's first image of a supermassive …

Scientists Capture First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole
5 years, 11 months ago

Scientists Capture First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole

Slate  

In what is being heralded as a momentous and long-awaited development in scientists’ search to understand some of the most mysterious aspects of our universe, astronomers for the first time have captured a photo of a black hole, an international consortium of scientists announced in simultaneous press conferences around the world Wednesday. Beyond producing a cool-looking image, the data will …

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 …

Black Hole event horizon: First image of black hole helps confirm Einstein's general relativity theory
5 years, 11 months ago

Black Hole event horizon: First image of black hole helps confirm Einstein's general relativity theory

Firstpost  

The black hole is located in the M87 galaxy that is about 53 million light years away from Earth. While much around a black hole falls into a death spiral and is never to be seen again, the new image captures “lucky gas and dust” circling at just far enough to be safe and seen millions of years later on …

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 …

Black hole: First EVER image unveiled of black hole’s event horizon
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole: First EVER image unveiled of black hole’s event horizon

Daily Mail  

Scientists have lifted the veil on the first images ever captured of a black hole’s event horizon. Using a ‘virtual telescope’ built from eight radio observatories positioned at different points on the globe, the international team has spent the last few years probing Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, and another target called …

First ever photo of black hole looks like Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings
5 years, 11 months ago

First ever photo of black hole looks like Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings

India Today  

In the end, the black hole turned out to be literally just that -- a black hole surrounded by a ring of angry yellow-red flames. To some, including a scientist, the black hole was reminiscent of the powerful flaming Eye of Sauron from the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. An international team of scientists this evening presented a breakthrough in …

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