NASA Telescopes Help Solve the Mystery of Why Supermassive Black Holes Blaze So Brightly

SPACE 11.29.2022 06:04 AM

NASA's IXPE telescopes reveal new details about the configuration of the extremely hot matter surrounding black holes. Read the article to learn more.

Colliding Black Holes Created Space-Time Ripples Like No Other, Similar to Waves on the Surface of Water

11.25.2022 09:00 AM

Researchers found evidence that the collision of black holes resulted in odd gravitational waves detected in 2019. Read the article to learn more details.

Wormholes May Have Been Hiding in Plain Sight: Scientists Determine Their Difference From Black Holes

11.16.2022 01:08 AM

Physicists believe that wormholes may have been detected with the help of a theoretical model and that they can be traveled through. Read the article to learn more.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Predicted to Collide Within Three Years: Here's What to Expect

08.30.2022 04:45 AM

Scientists are anticipating the merging of two supermassive black holes about 1 billion light-years away in the next three years. Read the article to know details about this cosmic event.

Astronomers Captured a New Detailed Image of Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) Using the World's Most Capable Telescopes

03.22.2022 05:31 AM

Check out the best image yet of odd radio circles (ORCs) in space captured by an international team of astronomers using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT radio telescope.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Locked Together by Gravity near Galaxy,’ Heading for ‘Titanic Collision’

03.03.2022 11:40 AM

With the discovery of 2 supermassive black holes near the galaxy we are expecting a ‘titanic collision.’ Discover how the pair moves to shake space and time.

Origins of Heavy Metals: Researchers Use Computer Simulations to Determine Where Gold Comes From

11.16.2021 05:17 AM

Where does gold come from? How are they produced in the universe? An international team of researchers shows the synthesis of heavy metals that might explain their origins.

Is NASA’s Top Priority the Discovery of Other Kinds of Life and Possible Habitat Apart from Earth?

11.05.2021 05:23 AM

A report said that according to a major report sponsored by NASA, the search for extraterrestrial life is the astronomers' tip priority in the next decade.

Wandering Rogue Black Holes in Milky Way Galaxy Are More Common Than Previously Thought

08.28.2021 23:00 PM

New simulations reveal that the universe may be home to a large number of rogue supermassive black holes.

Earth Destruction: Is This Really Possible? Black Holes, Volcanoes, Robotics May Negatively Impact the Planet in the Future

08.20.2021 02:15 AM

Reports have recently shown the possibility of the “end of the world,” which can be caused by black holes, volcanoes, and robotics, among others.

Black Holes, Neutron Stars Merge: Astrophysicists' 'First-Ever' Confirmed Merger Detection

06.29.2021 23:18 PM

A large alliance of astrophysicists recently reported it has made the first-ever confirmed detections of shockwaves generated by mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

Gigantic Galactic Wind Discovered: Researchers Say It is from 13.1 Billion Years Ago

06.22.2021 23:23 PM

A new study found a gigantic galactic wind from a supermassive black hole, shedding light on the evolution of galaxies.

Supermassive Black Holes Might Unravel The Mystifying Fifth Force Of The Universe

06.05.2017 13:27 PM

Recent reports are saying that supermassive black holes might unravel the mystifying fifth force of the universe based on the latest studies of space experts.

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Found The Evidence Of Earliest Supermassive Black Holes

06.02.2017 15:23 PM

A long-standing question in astrophysics is: how and when did supermassive black holes appear and grow in the early universe? New research using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) suggests that an answer to this question lies with the intermittent way giant black holes may consume material in the first billion years after the Big Ban

Astronomers From Austin & Harvard Test The Basic Principle Of Black Hole

05.31.2017 23:53 PM

The astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University test the basic principles of event horizon to seek whether the matter completely vanishes into the supermassive black hole.

Black Hole Quietly Born From Collapsing Massive Star That Skipped Its Supernova Stage

05.26.2017 12:50 PM

A dying star 25 times the size of the Earth's sun was witnessed to leave a black hole after its death.

Milky Way’s ‘Missing Link’ Black Hole Discovered In The Sagittarius Constellation

05.01.2017 19:46 PM

The discovered black hole was mentioned to fill in the "missing link" in supermassive black holes and stellar-mass ones.

NASA Captures Black Hole Flares, Ejection of Corona

10.28.2015 23:48 PM

Scientists are starting to learn that these massive X-ray beams are a result of coronas escaping from the black hole speeding at 20 percent the speed of light.

Hubble Spots Collisions and Cosmic Disarray At the Center of Black Hole

05.30.2015 15:55 PM

When it comes to high-speed collisions, nobody here on Earth has anything on black holes. Astronomers have witnessed a new first: two high-speed knots of matter colliding in a sort of rear-end impact. They saw this after creating a time-lapse video of a super-speed jet of plasma as it shot out of a supermassive black hole. The knots of matter were inside the black hole until it blasted them out-and into each other.

Rare Quasar Quartet is the First of Its Kind

05.16.2015 14:26 PM

Imagine winning the Powerball jackpot-more than once. You may have a sense of how a team of astronomers feels after their discovery of a set of four quasars at the visible universe's edge. These brilliant beacons of light are typically spread far apart, but this quartet exists shoved together in only 650,000 light-years of space-equivalent to around a quarter of the distance between our closest big neighbor galaxy Andromeda and the Milky Way.

Large Hadron Collider Could Prove the Existence of Star Trek's Parallel Universe

03.27.2015 16:01 PM

Every science fiction fan is familiar with the notion of parallel universes with the Star Trek series being one of the first to popularize the notion. However, thanks to the Large Hadron Collider, we may soon have proof that a parallel universe does, in fact, exist.