Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, located 9 billion light-years away, amid a cosmic feast as it devours one of the largest stars ever observed in a ‘tidal disruption event’ (TDE). This rare phenomenon, designated AT2023vto, is marked by the black hole shredding a star roughly nine times the mass of our Sun and … Read more
By Marcia Dunn | Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black … Read more
Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Reveals Milky Way‘s Black Hole Spinning at High SpeedsCAMBRIDGE: A groundbreaking study utilizing data from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) has unveiled that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is … Read more
Did you know there’s a Rat Hole in Chicago, where acolytes come day and night to worship at the altar of A Place Where A Rat Was But Is No Longer? No matter what time of day you go to visit, chances are you’ll run into a fellow believer there — someone else who knows … Read more
NEW DELHI: ISRO will usher in the New Year by launching X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat), which aims to study 50 brightest sources in space, including pulsars, black hole X-ray binaries, neutron stars, and non-thermal supernova remnants, from the Sriharikota spaceport on January 1. The rocket PSLV-C58, which will carry XPoSat, will also host 10 other … Read more
NASA astronomers have made a startling discovery as the team has managed to detect one of the oldest black holes with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope. The details are astonishing as the black hole might be dating back more than 13 billion years to the dawn of the universe.The earliest black holes … Read more