Two years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made headlines with its announcement of the first direct image of a black hole. Science magazine named the image its Breakthrough of the Year. Now the EHT collaboration is back with another groundbreaking result: a new image of the same black hole, this time showing how it […]
Enlarge / The remains of a shredded star formed an accretion disk around the black hole whose powerful tidal forces ripped it apart. This created a cosmic particle accelerator spewing out fast subatomic particles. (credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab) Roughly 700 million years ago, a tiny subatomic particle was born in a galaxy far, far […]
Enlarge / This quasar is over two billion light years away, yet is bright enough to outshine far closer galaxies. (credit: NASA/ESA) Active galaxies are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. These galaxies send out enormous jets of matter at near light speed, all powered by matter falling into the supermassive black hole […]
Animation depicting a celebrity experiencing spaghettification because it is squeezed in with a supermassive black hole through a”tidal disturbance event” It is a popular misconception that black holes act like such as cosmic vacuum cleaner , ravenously sucking any issue in their environment. In fact, only things that moves past the event horizon–such as mild –is […]
Expand / Artist’s example of a black hole merger. New simulations imply that colliding black holes ought to exude none, but several work-related”chirps,” if the crash is seen by the”equator” of the final black hole. Physicists search for combining black holes and other related cosmic events throughout the discovery of gravitational waves, by which they […]