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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...

NASA’s Webb Telescope unveils farthest supermassive black hole, Parker Solar Probe, more

8Jul

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NASA’s Webb Telescope unveils farthest supermassive black hole, Parker Solar Probe, more

[ad_1] NASA had some incredible updates to share this week, including the Parker Solar Probe's journey around the Sun, the James Webb Telescope's newest find and the communication with the Mars helicopter. Let's dive into the details!Webb Telescope spots farthest active supermassive “Black Hole” everScientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to find the farthest active supermassive black hole discovered so far. This black hole is smaller than any other black hole found in the early universe. It was located in a galaxy that formed just over 570 million years after the Big Bang. Parker Solar Probe completes 16th orbit around the SunNASA's Parker Solar Probe successfully finished its 16th orbit around the Sun. During this orbit, the probe came incredibly close to the Sun's surface, rea...

Miracle find! James Webb Telescope discovers farthest known supermassive black hole

7Jul

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Miracle find! James Webb Telescope discovers farthest known supermassive black hole

[ad_1] Supermassive black holes are incredibly powerful objects in space that even have the power to hold galaxies together with their strong gravity. They have the ability to destroy anything that comes too close to them. And luckily enough, the James Webb Telescope has discovered the farthest supermassive black hole known so far.The distances in space are unbelievably huge. According to the University of Texas at Austin, the new supermassive black hole is located at the center of a galaxy called CEERS 1019. Amazingly, this galaxy was formed just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Along with the supermassive black hole, scientists also found two smaller black holes that formed 1 billion and 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. CEERS 1019 SignificanceCEERS 1019 is not only very old ...

Accidental capture of Hubble shows runaway supermassive black hole

8Apr

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Accidental capture of Hubble shows runaway supermassive black hole

[ad_1] A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US.Captured accidentally by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the black hole was seen racing through the intergalactic space so fast that, within our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. "We think we're seeing a wake behind the black hole where the gas cools and is able to form stars. So, we're looking at star formation trailing the black hole," said Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US. "What we're seeing is the aftermath. Like the wake behind a ship, we're ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope finds a MONSTER black hole weighing as much as 20 million Suns

7Apr

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NASA Hubble Space Telescope finds a MONSTER black hole weighing as much as 20 million Suns

[ad_1] There are several giant objects floating in space. From massive planets to enormous asteroids and more. But they all pale in comparison to the latest NASA find. The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has detected a 'monster' runaway black hole. Amazingly, NASA has also stated that if the black hole was in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. The supermassive black hole also weighs as much as 20 million Suns. The strange part about this discovery is the unusual movement pattern of the black hole and the fact that it is forcing star formations instead of eating them."There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This super...

Miracle! You can be witness to first-ever seen supermassive black hole merger soon

11Feb

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Miracle! You can be witness to first-ever seen supermassive black hole merger soon

[ad_1] As it is, finding a supermassive black hole in itself is a big challenge. It is the most elusive celestial body as it is nearly impossible to directly see them. This is mainly because a black hole consumes everything in its vicinity, including light. That's why it was an incredibly rare discovery when it was found that two supermassive black holes were going to collide and merge. No one on Earth has ever seen such an event, let alone collect data from it. And now, we have a chance to not only observe the merger of black holes, but also find out some secrets about the universe we never knew existed.According to a study published in arXiv titled ‘Tick-Tock: The Imminent Merger of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary', a group of researchers have found that two supermassive black holes...

Hubble Telescope records dying moments of a star being eaten by Supermassive black hole

23Jan

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Hubble Telescope records dying moments of a star being eaten by Supermassive black hole

[ad_1] The final moments of a star before being destroyed by a black hole have been recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope. A black hole is a place in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing, including light, can escape. It is an extremely dense region of space formed by collapse of a giant star at the end of its life cycle. A supermassive Black Hole forms due to merging of black holes. The biggest black hole is a Supermassive black hole which resides in the center of galaxies and is capable of engulfing everything in its way. These black holes have masses that are more than 1 million suns together. Now, scientists have discovered a star actually being eaten by a supermassive black hole. Scientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope have recorded the final moments ...

Savage! Distant black hole is caught in the act of savaging a star

1Dec

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Savage! Distant black hole is caught in the act of savaging a star

[ad_1] Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage. Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage. But this was no ordinary instance of a ravenous black hole. It was one of only four examples - and the first since 2011 - of a black hole observed in the act of tearing apart a passing star in what is called a tidal disruption event and then launching luminous jets of high-energy particles in opposite directions into space, researchers said. And it was both the furthest and brightest such event on record. Astronomers describe...

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...

Amazing discovery! Event Horizon Telescope captures amazing gas bubble

14Oct

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Amazing discovery! Event Horizon Telescope captures amazing gas bubble

[ad_1] Astronomers have discovered a hot gas bubble swirling around a supermassive black hole known as the Sagittarius A*. Did you know that there is a black hole located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Nearly 26,000 light years away at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole which could potentially one day swallow the whole Milky Way Galaxy. The first image of this supermassive black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in May. The supermassive black hole has huge amounts of gas around it. Now, astronomers have spotted a hot gas bubble swirling around the supermassive black hole. The discovery was made with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) located in the Antofagasta Region of the Atacama ...