Credit: NASA Neptune, discovered in 1846, is thirty times farther from the Sun than Earth and orbits in one of the darkest parts of the…
The black hole information paradox solved: black holes do have hair, but quantum
A team of researchers from the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom, and Michigan State University, in the United States, seem to have solved…
Astronomers accidentally discover Black Hole so big you can spot it with a backyard telescope
The Fastest-Growing Black Hole Ever Seen In The Universe A supermassive black hole that grows so fast that it shines 7,000 times brighter than the…
Looking inside a neutron star
A merger of neutron stars. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Laboratory The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications…
They assure that the closest “black hole” to Earth is a “vampire” star system
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.…