Space Astronomers Unravel the Mystery Behind the Most Powerful Space Explosion Initially mistaken for a supernova, AT2022aedm stood out due to its extreme brightness and rapid fade. Unlike typical supernovas, which gradually dim over months, AT2022aedm dimmed to just 1% of its original brightness in just 14 days.
Space Astronomers Detect the Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole The JWST's data on CEERS 1019 and two other "lightweight" black holes, CEERS 2782 and CEERS 746, could revolutionize our understanding of cosmic history, revealing insights into how stars and galaxies formed and evolved.
Space Hubble Space Telescope Reveals a Rare Intermediate-Sized Black Hole The data collected by Hubble rule out alternative explanations for the object, such as a compact central cluster of stellar remnants like neutron stars, or smaller black holes orbiting each other.
Space You Can Now Compare the Sizes of Different Space Objects on a Dedicated Website The website is called Space Object Comparison. It includes the following categories of space objects that can be compared: black holes, space objects from the solar system, Alpha Centauri, Kepler-10 system, Sirius system, and others.
Space Scientists Discover Two Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies It will take several hundred million years for this particular pair of black holes to collide, but the insight gained from this observation could help scientists better estimate how many pairs of black holes in the universe are close to colliding.
Space Hubble Telescope Finds a Black Hole Twisting a Star into a Doughnut as It Swallows It Scientists say that a star is only torn apart in this way a few times every 100 thousand years in a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. These stellar killings are called "tidal disruption events."
Space Astronomers Discover Closest Known Black Hole to Earth A team of astronomers has discovered the closest known black hole to Earth using data from the Gaia spacecraft. They did it by observing the Sun-like star moving in unexpected ways caused by the gravity of an unseen massive object.
Space NASA Released the Eerie Sound of a Black Hole NASA has recorded the sounds of a massive black hole 250 million light-years away from Earth in the Perseus Cluster. The object is located so close to the gas clouds that it creates ripple-like sound waves.
Space NASA Releases an Arcade-Style Game Called Roman Space Observer The targets you will need to capture include orange and pink spirals or galaxies, blue ringed exoplanets, black holes, dark matter, white starburst supernovae, green rogue exoplanets, etc.
Space ESO Shares the First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way We cannot see the black hole itself, since it is completely black, but the luminous gas around proves that it is there: the dark central region is surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new image captures light distorted by the powerful gravity of the black hole.
Space Hubble Discovers a Rapidly Growing Black Hole in the Early Universe Until now, the galaxy called GNz7q has been hiding unnoticed in one of the most studied areas of the night sky – the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North) field.
Space The Universe Could Contain 40 Billion Billions of Black Holes Scientists at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA) have found that there are 40 billion billions (i.e., 4 followed by 19 zeros) stellar-mass black holes in the universe.