The Latest Breaking News from Black Hole

Knowing that black holes tend to have these masses could help provide a new way of measuring the expansion rate of the universe.

Black holes seem to get all the attention. But what about their mirror twins, white holes? Do they exist? And, if so, where are they?

For the first time, astronomers have spotted small-scale super-fast changes in a jet of super-energetic plasma jet blasting out from a small black hole.

NASA has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is located 400 million light-years away.

In addition to the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer also worked on many other areas of physics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

Tapping into cosmic X-rays, NASA's IXPE satellite has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is tucked away deep in space.

NASA's new detector, known as ComPair, is slated to fly next month. The goal is to catch high-energy, invisible beams stemming from things like star explosions, supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts.

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