Black Hole
Runaway Black Hole Creates Trail of New Stars and Sheds Light on Star Formation
April 8, 2023 | EditorsScientists have recently discovered that a runaway black hole is creating a trail of new stars in its wake, shedding light on the complex relationship between black holes and the formation of stars. Read More
17 Billion Solar Mass Giant Black Hole Discovered
April 22, 2016 | Editors 2Black holes are some of the most fascinating objects found in the cosmos, giant black holes with a mass billion times that of the sun is even more intriguing. Read More
Black Holes Alignment In Distant Space Baffle Astronomers
April 15, 2016 | EditorsResearchers in South Africa used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India to discover something strange in the distant universe, so bizarre that is not explained by the current cosmological models and theories. Read More
Rare Compact Elliptical Galaxy Hosting A Monster Black Hole Discovered
April 11, 2016 | EditorsAstronomers have discovered a rare compact ancient galaxy hosting a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 2 million solar masses. Read More
Black Stars: What Are They?
March 30, 2016 | Editors 5When Einstein developed relativity theory, he found a new way to describe gravity. It took him years to work out the math to find the solutions to his own equations, but they were only an approximate solution. Read More
Astronomers Spots Oldest Light in Universe, A Jet From A Distant Black Hole, Called B3 0727+409
February 20, 2016 | Editors 1Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra x-ray Observatory to discover a powerful jet from a very distant supermassive black hole that is being illuminated by the oldest light in the universe. Read More
Astronomers Find A Binary Black Hole Inside Closest Quasar
August 30, 2015 | EditorsUsing NASA’ Hubble Telescope, a team of astrophysicists and astronomers has found in the core of the dwarf galaxy Markarian 231 (Mrk 231) — also known as UGC 8058 — a binary black holes orbiting furiously around each other. Read More
Stephen Hawking Solved Black Holes’ Paradox?
August 26, 2015 | EditorsOne of the most vexing questions in physics is what would really happen if you fell into a black hole? Now, a new radical theory, proposed by famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking, may finally solve this challenging puzzle. Read More
NASA’s Chandra Observatory Detected Smallest Supermassive Black Hole Ever At The Center Of A Galaxy
August 22, 2015 | EditorsUsing NASA’ Chandra X-ray Observatory, an international team of researchers has discovered the smallest supermassive black hole yet resides at the center of a distant galaxy, 340 million light-years away from us. Read More
NASA Detects The Brighest Flare Ever From A Distant Galaxy
July 14, 2015 | EditorsAstronomers have managed to analyse a spectacular flare from a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy 3C 279, a record flare that happened five billion years ago. Read More
There Are Millions Of Hidden Supermassive Black Holes In The Universe, Scientists Says
July 7, 2015 | EditorsAstronomers have spotted five monster black holes previously hidden by dust and gas in space and they suggests that there might be millions more of them lurking around our universe. Read More
Astronomers Have Found Clear Link Between Black Holes And Galactic Merger
June 1, 2015 | EditorsUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated the relationship between monster black holes that power radio-signal-emitting galactic jets and galaxies that have undergone mergers. Read More
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