Black hole News
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The big news in astrophysics this year was the detection of ripples in the fabric of spacetime, known as gravitational waves. Scientists want to enlist the help of citizen scientists in helping to spot more occurrences.
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Astronomers have spotted an enormous black hole that grew much faster than its host galaxy. The black hole has the mass of nearly 7 billion suns.
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Astronomers worldwide are monitoring a newly awakened black hole after it released a blast of high-energy light. A black hole eruption is an extraordinary space phenomenon
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It shines with the force of 300 trillion suns. Discovered by NASA's WISE spacecraft, it is the most luminous galaxy in the universe.
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Black holes come in three sizes, small, medium and large. Small and large black holes have representative candidates to support black hole theory. A medium-sized candidate has been identified in a spiral galaxy 100 million light-years from Earth.
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An international team of astronomers recently found an ultraluminous quasar, the brightest in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet discovered.
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Straight lines in the universe eradicate a big-bang beginning to the universe. Without a Big Bang beginning, there are no black holes. Without black holes, there is no dark matter and no dark energy. There is, instead, an infinite stable, universe.
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Scientists are creating a method to see if they can determine whether the center of our galaxy is a black hole or a wormhole that might lead to another universe.
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NASA's super computer simulation allows you to peer into the inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole. The simulation is based on a new study by astronomers at NASA, John Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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New research conducted using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms what scientists have long suspected—that the unusual amount of X-ray sources emanating from the center of the Andromeda galaxy are the signatures of dozens of black holes.
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A new study shows that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are growing at a much faster rate than thought. The study suggests SMBHs do not grow primarily by galactic mergers as previously thought but by absorbing matter piecemeal.
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NASA scientists believe they may have found the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy formed only about 1,000 years ago, and it is not very far away from Earth, only about 26,000 light-years away.
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Scientists with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered what is believed to be the newest black hole to have formed in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Famous people are often asked to star in ads, but would you believe that Stephen Hawking chose to star in an auto insurance ad? And not only that, even end the ad with an evil chuckle?
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Scientists have announced the discovery of what they believe to be a record-breaking blast of gas and dust being ejected from a black hole more than 11.5 billion light-years away.
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The Trapezium of stars that make up the famed Orion's Sword of the Nebula Cluster of the same namesake have always been cloaked in mystery regarding their rapid movement. Scientists say they may have found the culprit: a Black Hole of 200 solar masses.
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NASA announced that their Swift satellite recorded a rising tide of high-energy X-rays, revealing the existence of a previously unknown black hole near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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NASA has launched an X-ray space telescope to study black holes and other hard-to-see objects in our galaxy in more detail.
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Are universes inside giant black holes? Is our entire universe located inside a wormhole? This is not science-fiction, but it could answer various cosmic mysteries that plague scientists across the globe (or universe?).
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Researchers believe that they may have found the heartbeat of the smallest black hole. They were using NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer when they made the discovery.
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Scientists at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom have observed a gargantuan black hole that ripped apart a sun-like star that wandered too close. This created a beam that crossed 3.8 billion light-years to Earth.
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Astronomers in the United States have discovered a gigantic black hole in a nearby galaxy that has a million times the mass of our sun. This provides evidence that black holes can form before the creation of galaxies.
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Astronomers, for the first time, believe they have witnessed the birth of a black hole. The black hole is believed to be a remnant of a supernova, 50 million light years from Earth, which was spotted by an amateur astronomer in 1979.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed one of the fastest stars ever recorded after the super hot blue star shot out of the Milky Way galaxy at 1.6 million mph (2.5 million kph) by a black hole.
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Astronomers have stumbled upon a small black hole that releases astronomical amounts of energy from powerful jets and are slamming into interstellar gas, which has created a large bubble of hot gas that reaches 1,000 light-years across.
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Israeli scientists have succeeded in creating a black hole that can effectively kill sound waves. The duration of sound vacuum, however, is just eight milliseconds.
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Scientists have seen two black holes dancing together in the same galaxy. It is believed that when galaxies are close together their black holes orbit each other until merging together.
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Scientists have discovered the means of which to create a Black Hole. In a laboratory at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, one of the greatest mysteries of the universe may soon be solved.
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Hundreds of rogue black holes could possibly be roaming around the Milky Way to "eat" stars and planets, according to US astronomers. The astronomers think that these black holes are invisible except for certain circumstances.
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NASA astronomers have dubbed a massive black hole, the 'Death Star Galaxy' after observers witnessed it release a jet of energy that blasted right into a neighbouring galaxy far away from our own.
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Black hole Image
Because they don’t give off light, astronomers have a difficult time pinpointing a black hole's location. But when a black hole gets close enough to an object, like a star, for example, and begins consuming the object's mass, the matter that pours into its gravitational clutches can get so hot that it glows and releases energy in the form of X-ray light. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab
Images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-ray telescopes (yellow and red) were combined in this view of GRB 110328A, which is now known as Sw 1644+57. The blast was detected only in X-rays, which were collected over a 3.4-hour period on March 28. Credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan ImmlerImages from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical (white, purple) and X-ray telescopes (yellow and red) were combined in this view of GRB 110328A, which is now known as Sw 1644+57. The blast was detected only in NASA
NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a growing flow of high-energy X-rays from somewhere near the center of our galaxy. The outburst, pictured in this illustration, was produced by a rare X-ray nova and announced the presence of a previously unknown stellar-mass black hole. NASA
This artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole, similar to APM 08279+5255, where astronomers discovered huge amounts of water vapor. Gas and dust likely form a torus around the central black hole, with clouds of charged gas above and below. X-rays emerge from the very central region, while thermal infrared radiation is emitted by dust throughout most of the torus. While this figure shows the quasar's torus approximately edge-on, the torus around APM 08279+5255 is likely positi NASA
The newly discovered quasar SDSS J0100+2802 is the one with the most massive black hole and the highest luminosity among all known distant quasars. Zhaoyu Li/Shanghai Observatory
This artist’s impression shows the material ejected from the region around the supermassive black hole in the quasar SDSS J1106+1939. ESO/L. Calçada
Full field X-ray view of Andromeda's center with black hole candidates marked. Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/SAO/R.Barnard, Z.Lee et al.), Optical (NOAO/AURA/NSF/REU Prog./B.Schoening,
Artist's illustration of a growing supermassive black hole located in the early Universe, showing copious amounts of radiation. NASA/CXC/A.Hobart
Stephen Hawking sucks an opera singer into a black hole in a Go Compare auto insurance ad. YouTube
Artist's impression of superluminous galaxy, normally only identified by its infrared light NASA
This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. NASA
Black hole Cygnus X-1 NASA
Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud Alain R.
Newly discovered object NGC2276-3c in the galaxy NGC 2276 may prove to be an important intermediate-mass black hole that helps fill in the evolutionary story of these exotic cosmological objects. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/M.Mezcua et al & NASA/CXC/INAF/A.Wolter
Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have been used to discover 26 black hole candidates in the Andromeda galaxy, marking the largest number of potential black holes found in a galaxy outside of our own. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/R. Barnard, Z. Lee et al.; Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/REU Program/B. Schoen
This still from a NASA video animation depicts how the black hole eats a star. NASA
W49B NASA/Chandra X-ray Observatory
Black hole devours a neutron star. Scientists say they have seen tantalizing, first-time evidence of a black hole eating a neutron star-first stretching the neutron star into a crescent, swallowing it, and then gulping up crumbs of the broken star in the minutes and hours that followed NASA
A star being shot out into the distant realms of space. Vanderbilt University
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found that the growth of galaxies containing supermassive black holes can be slowed down by a phenomenon referred to as cosmic precipitation. Chandra X-ray: NASA/CXC/Michigan State Univ/M.Voit et al
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