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 to model interactions between black holes and stars Its orbit takes it perilously close to a supermassive black hole with an insatiable hunger. Every time it zooms around the black hole, its gaseous body gets nibbled away by the extreme gravitational force, producing a flash of X-rays. Using the telescope, researchers picked up a flash of X-ray light over a period of several months from the direction of the supermassive black hole. For instance, in 2019, researchers thought they spotted a repeating tidal disruption event between a white dwarf and a black hole about 400,000 times the mass of our Sun.

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

Supermassive Black Hole emits rare double flash: Scientists revealed the mystery
2 months, 1 week 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 …

There might be many more supermassive black holes hiding around us than we thought, scientists warn
2 months, 1 week ago

There might be many more supermassive black holes hiding around us than we thought, scientists warn

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. “This is the first time we have a highly refined census of black holes growing by consuming …

Nasa catches black hole tearing star apart, then using its energy to destroy another
5 months, 1 week ago

Nasa catches black hole tearing star apart, then using its energy to destroy another

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 observed a supermassive black hole tearing apart a star and using …

India's AstroSat unravels black hole secrets like never before
1 year, 1 month ago

India's AstroSat unravels black hole secrets like never before

India Today  

In a new study recently accepted in The Astrophysical Journal, an international team of scientists has used India's AstroSat's full multi-wavelength capabilities to unravel the mysteries of an X-ray binary system hosting a black hole. An X-ray binary system is a type of binary star system consisting of two celestial objects: a compact object, typically a neutron star or a …

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 …

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, …

‘Runaway supermassive black hole’ mystery solved: Scientists find new explanation for object speeding through the universe
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Runaway supermassive black hole’ mystery solved: Scientists find new explanation for object speeding through the 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. Read our privacy policy Scientists think they have found an explanation for what scientists thought was a …

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 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 …

Star ‘squeezed like toothpaste tube’ by supermassive black hole in cosmic show
2 years, 3 months ago

Star ‘squeezed like toothpaste tube’ by supermassive black hole in cosmic show

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 An “extraordinary flash” seen in the sky earlier this year was caused by …

Astronomers detect hot gas bubble around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
2 years, 6 months ago

Astronomers detect hot gas bubble around the Milky Way’s supermassive 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. Read our privacy policy Astronomers have detected a hot gas bubble swirling around the Milky …

Huge bubbles surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy were formed by the black hole at its heart, study says
3 years ago

Huge bubbles surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy were formed by the black hole at its heart, study 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 black hole at the heart of our galaxy has surrounded it in …

Astronomers spot ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time using Hubble Space Telescope – Firstpost
3 years, 1 month ago

Astronomers spot ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time using Hubble Space Telescope – Firstpost

Firstpost  

While it may seem that black holes are by definition invisible, they can still be detected through the way they interact with other objects owing to their strong gravity Astronomers famously snapped the first ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. In “ X-ray binary stars ” — in which a …

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 …

Astronomers capture eruption of supermassive black hole feeding
3 years, 2 months ago

Astronomers capture eruption of supermassive black hole feeding

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 the most comprehensive image of an emission from Earth’s nearest …

Black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has a leak, Hubble finds evidence
3 years, 3 months ago

Black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has a leak, Hubble finds evidence

India Today  

The black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy has a leak and is spurting blowtorch-like jets dating back several thousand years. The team then found the infrared images from the Hubble that showed a glowing, inflating bubble of hot gas aligning to the jet at a distance of at least 35 light-years from the black hole. The …

Supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has a ‘leak’, Nasa says
3 years, 3 months ago

Supermassive black hole in the Milky Way has a ‘leak’, Nasa 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 black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has a ‘leak’, …

Supermassive Black Holes Can Cause Tsunami Waves as High as 94.6 Trillion km
3 years, 8 months ago

Supermassive Black Holes Can Cause Tsunami Waves as High as 94.6 Trillion km

News 18  

The highest waves in the 2004 Tsunami that wreaked havoc in Indonesia were as high as 51 metres. That is what astronomers have discovered – Tsunamis of gas escaping from black holes with waves with an unfathomable size of 94.6 trillion kilometres or 10 light-years, which is more than 300 times the diameter of our solar system. Supermassive black holes, …

Stunning new image of the first black hole EVER photographed
3 years, 11 months 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 …

NASA's Chandra Observatory Discovers Most Distant Jet Streaming From Supermassive Black Hole
4 years ago

NASA's Chandra Observatory Discovers Most Distant Jet Streaming From Supermassive Black Hole

News 18  

Scientists from National Aeronautics and Space Administration have found one of the oldest and the most distant supermassive black holes with a jet. In its recent post on Instagram, NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory shared an image of an extraordinarily long jet of particles coming from a supermassive black hole in the early universe. The source of this 160,000-light-year-long jet, NASA …

Supermassive Black Hole in Centre of Milky Way May Have Caused Changes in Other Stars, Study Finds
4 years, 2 months ago

Supermassive Black Hole in Centre of Milky Way May Have Caused Changes in Other Stars, Study Finds

News 18  

A few stars in the Milky Way Galaxy have undergone a change in their colour due to a supermassive black hole right in the centre of the galaxy, reveals a recent research. In a paper published online in the Astrophysical Journal, astrophysicists have come up with a theory saying that the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* launched a powerful jet …

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 …

Astronomers witness ‘spaghettification’ of star shredded by a black hole
4 years, 5 months ago

Astronomers witness ‘spaghettification’ of star shredded by a black hole

CNN  

CNN — A black hole enjoyed one stellar spaghetti dinner and astronomers were able to witness the event from 215 million light-years away in a spiral galaxy in the Eridanus constellation. Astronomers saw the light from a star being devoured and ripped apart by a supermassive black hole using telescopes at the European Southern Observatory in Chile. M. Kornmesser/ESO “When …

Twinkling heart of the Milky Way spotted. Researchers hope more info on supermassive black hole now
4 years, 9 months ago

Twinkling heart of the Milky Way spotted. Researchers hope more info on supermassive black hole now

India TV News  

Twinkling heart of the Milky Way spotted. Researchers hope more info on supermassive black hole now For the first time, astronomers have found quasi-periodic flickers in milimeter-waves from the center of the Milky way galaxy, Sagittatrius A*. The team interpreted these blinks to be due to the rotation of radio spots circling the supermassive black hole with an orbit radius …

The black hole that helps baby stars grow instead of destroying them
5 years, 3 months ago

The black hole that helps baby stars grow instead of destroying them

CNN  

CNN — Black holes are known as destructive forces in the universe, shredding stars and using immense gravity to pull in gas, dust and light. But astronomers have witnessed a black hole that is actually helping to nurture and spark the birth of baby stars across multiple galaxies more than one million light-years from its origin. “This is the first …

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

Supermassive black hole and beyond
5 years, 9 months ago

Supermassive black hole and beyond

The Hindu  

ASTRONOMERS now have a fairly good idea of the chaotic and crowded neighbourhood surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, that is about 26,000 light years from the earth. At this temperature, the gas glows fiercely in X-ray light, allowing it to be studied by space-based X-ray telescopes, down to scale of about a tenth …

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 …

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 …

A mysterious cosmic flare, 'the cow' might just be the birth of a black hole
6 years, 2 months ago

A mysterious cosmic flare, 'the cow' might just be the birth of a black hole

Firstpost  

Scientists also think that the flare could be a monster black hole shredding a passing star. A very unusual flare which was spotted in the night sky last summer, on 16 June 2018, stunned and excited scientists, and they’re wondering now that the explosion might have just given birth to a black hole or a neutron star. One of the …

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 spot supermassive black hole ripping apart nearby star
6 years, 9 months ago

Astronomers spot supermassive black hole ripping apart nearby star

Firstpost  

Astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that wandered too close to the cosmic monster. …

Scientists discover 10,000 black holes hiding at centre of Milky Way
6 years, 11 months ago

Scientists discover 10,000 black holes hiding at centre of Milky Way

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 have long suspected that there might be a host of smaller black holes surrounding the supermassive …

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 …

See Pics! In a first, NASA's WISE telescope captures supermassive black holes eating up stars
8 years, 6 months ago

See Pics! In a first, NASA's WISE telescope captures supermassive black holes eating up stars

India TV News  

Gigantic black holes have been spotted eating up everything including the stars present near them – something they are quite famous for. Black holes have a tremendous gravitational pull and obtain thermal energy equal to the energy our sun would produce over 10 million years. In a historic achievement, NASA scientists have managed to record this whole process of radiation …

Astronomers capture supermassive black hole eating star
8 years, 8 months ago

Astronomers capture supermassive black hole eating star

CNN  

Story highlights Supermassive black hole observed swallowing a passing star Jets of particles shoot out at almost the speed of light CNN — A star, caught in the grips of a supermassive black hole. Red flashes reveal black hole feeding on star ‘Sharpest measurements ever made’ An international team of astronomers, led by Jun Yang at Sweden’s Chalmers University of …

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 …

Black holes cause BLASTS in the cores of galaxies
9 years, 11 months ago

Black holes cause BLASTS in the cores of galaxies

Daily Mail  

And the huge outflows could also dictate the size and shape of galaxies This leads to the formation of thousands of stars ever year They say supermassive black holes are causing blasts of material Supermassive black holes at the centre of large galaxies could be powering blasts from deep inside the galaxy's core, astronomers have claimed. Scroll down for video …

Astonishing power of supermassive black hole caught on camera
11 years, 5 months ago

Astonishing power of supermassive black hole caught on camera

Daily Mail  

Astonishing power of supermassive black hole caught on camera as it 'eats' immeasurable amounts of matter The images display the sheer power of the vast astral bodies By chance, a telescope captured one swallowing a huge amount of mass Images shed light on how the phenomena affects our galaxy One of the universe's most majestic sights has been captured on …

Desktop Project Part 22: A black hole belches out a hurricane
12 years, 11 months ago

Desktop Project Part 22: A black hole belches out a hurricane

Slate  

This is the only one of my Desktop Project pictures that’s not actually a picture: it’s an illustration. It’s still pretty neat: This drawing shows the binary star IGR J17091−3624, which is actually a normal star in the clutches of a black hole. Their best guess is that this is vaporized iron blasting away from the disk in a kind …

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