by admin | Dec 2, 2024 | Black holes, Galaxies, Galaxy, Little Red Dots, Nasa, News, space, Space News, The Conversation
Astronomers exploring the faraway universe with the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful telescope, have found a class of galaxies that challenges even the most skillful creatures in mimicry – like the mimic octopus. This creature can impersonate other... by admin | Dec 2, 2024 | Black holes, naked singularities, Nasa, News, quantum, space, Space News, The Conversation
Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result is a “singularity” – a point of infinite density or curvature. At a... 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...