New class of galaxies could indicate early growth of black holes
A team of astronomers has discovered that these mysterious red objects that appear small in the sky emerge in large ...
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Imaging X-ray polarimetry explorer helps researchers determine shape of black hole’s corona
This illustration of material swirling around a black hole highlights a special feature, called a "corona," that glows brightly under ...
Stem cell transplants repair macular holes in primate study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Human stem cell transplants successfully repaired macular holes in a monkey model, researchers report October 3 ...
Hubble Discovers More Black Holes Than Expected in the Early Universe
New image of the Hubble Telescope's Ultra Deep Field. Credits: NASA, ESA, Matthew Hayes (Stockholm University) Using NASA's Hubble Space ...
Why are black holes stable against their own gravity?
Fig. 1. A black hole of mass M has a constant negative interior scalar curvature R, with radius r0 given ...
Dark matter may have contributed to the formation of supermassive black holes in the early universe
An image from the James Webb telescope shows quasar J0148 circled in red. Two insets show the central black hole ...
Event Horizon Telescope detects black holes at high resolution from Earth
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has made the first very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) detections at 345 GHz from ...
Tarantulas and Their Kin; How Mosquitoes Find You; Black Holes Aren’t Mysterious at All
A frog and a tarantula make good roommates. Credit: Francesco Tomasinelli and Emanuel Biggi There has been a lot of ...
New simulations shed light on stellar destruction by supermassive black holes
Formation of a disk in an isentropic simulation (effective radiative cooling) with a rotating black hole (a = 0.99, θ ...
How black holes went from creating stars to extinction
The transition in rates of star formation and black hole growth as redshift decreases from regimes where positive feedback dominates ...
