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This black hole is spewing powerful jet of energy towards Earth

26Jul

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This black hole is spewing powerful jet of energy towards Earth

[ad_1] Recently, the NASA James Webb Space Telescope spotted the farthest active supermassive black hole discovered so far. Incidentally, this black hole was also found to be smaller than any known in the early universe. This was just one of many discoveries that highlighted how mysterious the world of black holes is. Now, a NASA mission has found a supermassive black hole that is spraying a jet of highly powerful bursts of energy. And to make matters worse, the jet is directed at the Earth. These events are dubbed blazars.NASA, astronomers have made a thrilling discovery involving a supermassive black hole located about 400 million light-years away from Earth. This cosmic event, although fearsome, poses no immediate threat, thanks to how far away from Earth it is. Markarian 421Designat...

The biggest explosion ever in the cosmos captured by NASA; It BIRTHED a black hole?

28Jan

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The biggest explosion ever in the cosmos captured by NASA; It BIRTHED a black hole?

[ad_1] NASA captured a wave of radiation hitting Earth that came from the biggest explosion ever recorded in history. Astronomers believe it could be from the explosion of a supernova that actually birthed a black hole. Last year, NASA captured something stunning that strangely went under the radar. A gigantic cosmic explosion was captured by the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope as well as a few other observatories, which is now being dubbed as the biggest and the brightest explosion in recorded history. As studies are ongoing to gain a better understanding of the event, an early belief is that the energy came from a supernova explosion 1.9 billion light years away, the death of a massive star, and it indicated the birth of a black hole.NASA posted on its blog post, revealing deta...

Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape

16Jan

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Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape

[ad_1] Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. These are termed 'tidal disruption events'. But the wording belies the complex, raw violence of a black hole encounter. There is a balance be...

NASA and ISA’s new space observatory helps solve mystery of supermassive black holes

24Nov

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NASA and ISA’s new space observatory helps solve mystery of supermassive black holes

[ad_1] Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched last December as a collaboration between the U.S. space agency NASA and the Italian Space Agency. Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way's center, some are fierce - guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space.Using data from the recently deployed Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) orbiting observatory, researchers on Wednesday offered an explanation for how these jets become so luminous: subatomic particles called electrons becoming energized by shock waves moving at supersonic speed away from the black hole. The researchers studied an exotic object called a bl...

Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of very hot matter near black hole

7Nov

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Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of very hot matter near black hole

[ad_1] Researchers' recent observations of a black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of hot matter in the region . The first observations of a mass-accreting black hole from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding it. Researchers are using measurements of the polarization of X-rays to test and refine models that describe how black holes swallow matter, becoming some of the most luminous sources of light including X-rays in the universe. Matter is heated to millions of degrees as it is pulled toward a black hole. This hot matter glows in X-rays. Researchers are using measurements of the polarization of these X-rays to test and refine ...

A Black Hole 4.5 billion times BIGGER than our Sun? This is what NASA Hubble Space Telescope just found

27Aug

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A Black Hole 4.5 billion times BIGGER than our Sun? This is what NASA Hubble Space Telescope just found

[ad_1] A galaxy called M60 has a huge black hole at its center and that's about 4.5 billion times as massive as our Sun. Know what NASA says. Scientists and researchers have been trying to find more information regarding the terrifying black holes that seem to be all around in space destroying planets and stars at will. It can be known that a black hole is an astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. It is a place of eternal pitch black darkness. So, what if we tell you that there is a galaxy which has a black hole that is so much bigger than our Sun? NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image showing the galaxy called M60. The galaxy has a diameter of 1,20,000...