by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | Black holes, News, simulation, space, Space News, star, The Conversation
Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This leads to a dramatic and complex process as the star plunging towards the supermassive black hole is spaghettified and torn to shreds. The...
by admin | Mar 4, 2024 | Black holes, Galaxies, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Peering deep into the infancy of the universe, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently confirmed the discovery of the brightest and fastest growing quasar. Quasars are luminous objects in the night sky powered by gas falling into a...
by admin | Jan 23, 2024 | Black holes, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we can’t easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we report such a discovery, which is likely to spark discussion and speculation. Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the...
by admin | Dec 22, 2023 | Black holes, Nasa, News, space, Space News, stars, The Conversation
Black holes are dense astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Anything that crosses the boundary of a black hole’s gravitational influence, called the event horizon, will fall into the black hole. Inside this deep, dense...
by admin | Sep 18, 2023 | Black holes, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
As people, we are all shaped by the neighborhoods we grew up in, whether it was a bustling urban center or the quiet countryside. Objects in distant outer space are no different. As an astronomer at the University of Arizona, I like to think of myself as a cosmic...
by admin | Feb 19, 2023 | Black holes, Nasa, News, Other Tech News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Black holes could explain a mysterious form of energy that makes up most of the universe, according to astronomers. The existence of “dark energy” has been inferred from observations of stars and galaxies, but no one has been able to explain what it is, or where it...
