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Hace 1 día · Black holes have captured our imagination for decades. From "Star Trek" to Hollywood blockbusters, they’ve been the ultimate cosmic mystery. These are the bl...
6 de may. de 2024 · A backdrop of the starry sky as seen from Earth completes the scene. Tour an alternative visualization that tracks a camera as it approaches, falls toward, briefly orbits, and escapes a supermassive black hole. This immersive 360-degree version allows viewers to look around during the flight.
Hace 6 días · When quasars collide. Supermassive black holes gobbling up matter sit at the heart of what astronomers call active galactic nuclei (AGN). From their central locations, these bright black...
Hace 6 días · Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) to detect the most distant pair of colliding black holes in the known universe. The cosmic monsters — each estimated to be as...
7 de may. de 2024 · Finding primordial black holes would reveal new information about the very early universe, and would strongly suggest that an early period of inflation did indeed occur. It could also explain a small percentage of the mysterious dark matter scientists say makes up the bulk of our universe’s mass, but have so far been unable to identify.
9 de may. de 2024 · This close-up view of the center of the Andromeda galaxy, taken by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, is annotated with blue dotted lines to highlight the path of two dust streams flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center (indicated by a purple dot). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Hace 2 días · The black hole in question is found in a system about 10,000 light-years away called MAXI J1820+070. This system contains a black hole about 8.5 times the mass of the Sun – and a binary companion star, from which the black hole strips material as the pair of objects orbit, feeding in bursts that manifest as X-ray flickering.
