These models placed the black hole’s mass at about 50 million times that of the Sun, which is in line […]
Category: astrophysics
“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites
“How in the hell do I get more science into space? That is my goal.” Saturn’s moon Enceladus peeks over […]
LIGO data hints at supernovae so powerful they leave nothing behind
Skip to content LIGO data hints at supernovae so powerful they leave nothing behind Pair instability supernovae create a “mass […]
A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it
Katalyst Space Technologies must launch the Swift rescue mission by this summer. NASA’s Swift observatory is unwrapped after shipment to […]
Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae. Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe […]
This black hole “burps” with Death Star energy
When AT2018hyz, aka “Jetty,” was first discovered, radio telescopes didn’t detect any signatures of an outflow emission of material within the […]
NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope
“It was not recognized how serious a problem that is until… about 2017 or 2018.” The Pandora observatory, seen here […]
Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes
The researchers used cosmological simulations to recreate the first 700 million years of cosmic history, focusing on the formation of […]
Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better
Skip to content But the differences are likely to be subtle, so it won’t be easy. First image of a […]
New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem
Skip to content a black hole hunting machine Physicists spliced merger’s gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas. […]