Artist’s impression of a galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole located in the center of a galaxy. The intense energy emanating from the…
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This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI) Astrophysicists have developed…
This artist’s impression depicts a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin disc of rotating material consists of the leftovers…
As a supermassive black hole consumed a star, researchers were surprised it exhibited properties that were similar to that of much smaller, stellar-mass black holes.…
One of the key goals of gravitational wave astronomy is to understand and characterize binary black hole spins, according to Vijay Varma, a Klarman Postdoctoral…
Astronomers have discovered two pairs of quasars in the distant Universe, about 10 billion light-years from Earth. In each pair, the two quasars are separated…
A black hole tears down a star, leaving a long string of star material, which then wraps itself around the black hole. Credit: NASA /…
Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Baum & C. O’Dea (RIT), R. Perley & W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) An X-ray telescope designed…
The experimental quantum computing setup at the Advanced Quantum Testbed. Credit: Berkeley Lab Team led by Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley scientists builds a new type…
Studying the violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars may soon provide a new measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, helping to resolve a…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University General relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, is best tested at its…
Artist’s impression of a galaxy with an active nucleus, a supermassive black hole in the center. When the black hole swallows matter, two powerful jets…
This illustration shows the concept of gravitational microlensing with a black hole. When a black hole passes nearly in front of a more distant star,…
In this frame from a new visualization, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million solar masses lies in the foreground. Its gravity distorts light from…
In this frame from the new visualization, a supermassive black hole weighing 200 million solar masses lies in the foreground. Its gravity distorts light from…
“If you jump onto and then down from a carousel, you can steal energy from the carousel,” says co-author Salvatore Vitale. “These bosons do the…
Composite image showing how the M87 system looked, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, during the Event Horizon Telescope’s April 2017 campaign to take the iconic…
In this artist’s conception of the polarized view of the black hole in M87, lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the…
What is the origin of black holes and how is that question connected with another mystery, the nature of dark matter? Dark matter comprises the…
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in…