The black hole considered until now as “the closest to Earth” was discovered in 2020 just a thousand light years from our planet. However, a…
NASA observatory captures black hole merger in spiral galaxy NGC 4424
(Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Swinburne Univ. of Technology/A. Graham et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI) Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope describe how…
James Webb vs Hubble, the differences between their images of space
Images credit: NASA The James Webb Space Telescope has finally unleashed its full potential and has pointed its main mirror at five different targets secretly…
NASA captures the sound of a black hole: this is how the enigmatic Perseus Cluster sounds
Scientists have been able to translate the sounds of the black hole through sound waves captured by NASA’s Chandra X observatory. NASA produced a sonification…
Stealth black hole discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation, and gravitational waves
There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research. Albert Einstein first published his book explaining the theory of…
The “black hole police” discover the first dormant black hole outside the Milky Way, and it’s just 160,000 light-years from Earth
Image of the Tarantula Nebula, about 160,000 light-years away, showing a cosmic landscape of star clusters, glowing gas clouds, and scattered remnants of supernova explosions.…
Chandra Shows Giant Black Hole Spins Slower Than its Peers
H1821+643, Credit: NASA NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has enabled an unprecedented measurement of a black hole’s spin, making it slower than most of its smaller…
A black hole with unstoppable growth is discovered
The fastest growing black hole in the last 9 billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers from the ANU (Australian…
The NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescope has identified a possible floating black hole 5,000 light-years away from Earth.
They discover a free-floating ‘dark’ black hole in our galaxy In early 2022, Hubble astronomers, using gravitational microlensing, were able to detect, for the first…
The ‘quantum hair’ of black holes, the possible answer to Stephen Hawking’s paradox
The notion of quantum hair makes it possible for information about what goes into a black hole to get back out again without violating either…