The Black Hole Finder app lets users help discover black holes by reviewing real-time telescope images. Photo : iStock A groundbreaking new app called Black Hole Finder has been launched by the Dutch Black Hole Consortium, enabling anyone with a smartphone to assist in the search for black holes. Available for free on both Android …
James Webb Space Telescope has captured a black hole ravenously eating up cosmic bodies. This black hole lies at the centre of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258 located 23 million light-years from Earth. It shreds up everything that comes near it and is gobbling them up. European Space Agency (ESA) shared a photo of the …
Big black holes, which can have masses up to hundreds of thousands of times that of the sun, are less common than small black holes, which are often found between five and 100 times that of the sun. There are still unanswered concerns regarding the genesis and growth of black holes due to the elusiveness …
By Fan Zou and W. Niel Brandt Pennsylvania, US: Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun. These giants usually live in the centers of …
An international team of astronomers used more than 500 images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades of observations – to detect seven fast-moving stars in the innermost region of Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. These stars provide compelling new evidence for the presence of an intermediate-mass …
A groundbreaking study conducted by a multi-institutional research team has shed new light on the dynamics of black hole binary systems. The team, comprising experts from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, U. R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), ISRO, University of Mumbai, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), utilized data from AstroSat, India’s …
Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in combination with other NASA telescopes, is helping astronomers delve deeper into this galactic factory where stars are vigorously being produced. This is the first data to be publicly released from a project called the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open …
Scientists have discovered certain types of black holes that swivel around and shoot beams at objects in the cosmos. This has prompted comparisons to the planet-killing Death Star space base from Star Wars. Newly discovered real-life Star Wars ‘Death Star’ black holes shoot beams that can kill planets (Pixabay – representational image) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} …
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory along with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s National Radio Astronomical Observatory’s (NRAO) Very Long Baseline Array spotted gargantuan black holes firing strong beams of supercharged particles which were slowly changing direction over millions of years. The supermassive black holes were seen spinning in different directions and shooting these particle jets in deep space. In a statement, Astrophysicist Francesco Ubertosi said, “We …
The research marks a significant advancement in black hole studies. Scientists from the Department of Physics at Oxford University have confirmed a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of gravity. Their study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, provides the first observational evidence of a ‘plunging region’ around black holes. This region …