In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forward an intriguing idea: Using the principles of quantum physics, he predicted that even though nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon ...
Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...
The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that have increased in speed. Astronomers say they have never seen anything like it before. The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654 ...
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black holeThe James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.
Lead author Dr Peter Boorman, formerly of the University of Southampton and now at Caltech, in Pasadena, California, explained: “Black holes also influence the galaxies they live in – this ...
“White dwarfs are small and compact, they’re very difficult to shred apart, so they can be very close to a black hole,” explained MIT astronomer Erin Kara, a co-author on the paper, in a ...
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