All articles tagged with #black hole
Originally Published 3 days ago — by Live Science
The James Webb Space Telescope has potentially confirmed the first observed supermassive black hole escaping its galaxy at 2.2 million mph, leaving behind a trail of young stars and creating a shockwave detectable in space, providing new insights into galaxy and black hole dynamics.
Originally Published 3 days ago — by Space
Astronomers observed 'the Whippet,' a powerful Tidal Disruption Event where a super-sized star was shredded by a black hole, releasing energy equivalent to 400 billion suns, providing new insights into black hole behavior and star destruction processes.
Originally Published 5 days ago — by Indian Defence Review
Using XRISM's high-resolution instruments alongside ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's NuSTAR, scientists captured unprecedented details of a supermassive black hole in galaxy MCG–6-30-15, confirming relativistic effects near the event horizon, identifying multiple wind zones, and challenging previous models of distant reflection, thus advancing our understanding of black hole physics and galaxy growth.
Originally Published 7 days ago — by Universe Today
XRISM, a joint JAXA-NASA mission, has captured the sharpest X-ray image to date of a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole in galaxy MCG–6-30-15, providing new insights into black hole spin and the environment near the event horizon by combining high-resolution data with other telescopes, and confirming the presence of material orbiting close to the speed of light.
Originally Published 7 days ago — by The Daily Galaxy
Astronomers have directly observed a spinning black hole twisting spacetime, confirming Einstein's prediction of frame-dragging through the detection of Lense-Thirring precession during a tidal disruption event, using X-ray and radio telescopes, deepening our understanding of black hole physics and spacetime dynamics.
Originally Published 8 days ago — by SciTechDaily
Astronomers have directly observed a spinning black hole twisting spacetime, confirming Einstein's century-old prediction of frame-dragging through the detection of wobbling in a star's debris disk and jets during a tidal disruption event, using X-ray and radio observations.
Originally Published 8 days ago — by Interesting Engineering
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a massive black hole in a young galaxy from just 700 million years after the Big Bang, challenging traditional theories of galaxy and black hole formation. The black hole's size and the lack of surrounding stars suggest it may have originated as a primordial black hole, formed directly from density fluctuations in the early universe, rather than from star collapse. This finding opens new possibilities about the origins of supermassive black holes and the early universe, though further research is needed to confirm these theories.
Originally Published 14 days ago — by Daily Kos
Scientists observed a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 eject matter at a record-breaking speed of 60,000 km/sec, using X-ray satellites. This rapid wind formation, triggered by a burst of X-ray light, resembles solar eruptions but on a vastly larger scale, providing new insights into black hole behavior.
Originally Published 15 days ago — by Earth.com
Astronomers have discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir in the cosmos within a quasar called APM 08279+5255, containing enough water to fill trillions of Earth oceans, and its brightness is likely amplified by gravitational lensing, providing insights into galaxy and black hole growth in the early universe.
Originally Published 20 days ago — by ScienceAlert
Astronomers observed a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole in galaxy LEDA 145386, providing the most detailed evidence yet of frame-dragging, a prediction of general relativity, as the black hole's rotation twists spacetime around it.
Originally Published 23 days ago — by Gizmodo
Astronomers using the Webb space telescope have observed the first known runaway supermassive black hole, which is traveling at 2.2 million mph and leaving a trail of gas that is forming new stars over 200,000 light-years long, likely ejected from its galaxy due to a galaxy merger or binary black hole interaction.
Originally Published 25 days ago — by Space
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a runaway supermassive black hole, 10 million times the sun's mass, moving at 2.2 million mph through the Cosmic Owl galaxies, leaving a trail of star-forming gas and shock waves, and providing new insights into black hole ejections during galaxy mergers.
Originally Published 25 days ago — by Live Science
NASA's JWST discovered a supermassive black hole hidden in the 'Jekyll and Hyde' galaxy Virgil, which appears as a normal star-forming galaxy in optical light but reveals a black hole in infrared, challenging previous ideas about black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe.
Originally Published 27 days ago — by Yahoo
Astronomers have directly observed a whirlpool in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole, providing the first empirical evidence of the Lense–Thirring precession, a phenomenon where a spinning black hole drags spacetime around with it, confirming a long-standing theoretical prediction.
Originally Published 1 month ago — by Gizmodo
Despite facing challenges in 2025, NASA made groundbreaking discoveries including potential signs of past life on Mars, an interstellar comet, a new moon around Uranus, the heaviest black hole ever, and life ingredients in asteroid samples, highlighting its continued pursuit of space exploration and scientific innovation.