Holes
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Fluctuating light from a black hole, observed over 15 years, has revealed more about the way these enigmatic objects feed. First, a structure called a corona forms around the outside of the event horizon. Then, powerful jets of plasma launch from the poles, punching material from the corona out into interstellar space at speeds close […]
Two black holes collided billions of years ago, sending ripples through time and space. This is only the second pair of black holes orbiting each other ahead of merging that researchers have found. Study of the gravitational waves created by the space event will help scientists learn about the evolution of the universe. In a […]
NASA’s black hole-probing IXPE spacecraft has successfully been deployed in space, and videos of the launch are available to watch online. The spacecraft was blasted into space on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1 a.m. ET on Thursday. A NASA video from Twitter
PPPL physicist Fatima Ebrahimi with computer-generated images of plasma and accretion disks. Credit: Kiran Sudarsanan Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered a process in the swirling masses of plasma surrounding black holes and neutron stars that can cause previously unexplained emissions of light and heat. The […]
The satellite is scheduled to launch around 1 a.m. ET Thursday morning aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Live coverage of the launch will be available on NASA TV and the agency’s website. The spacecraft, which is the collaborative effort of NASA and the Italian Space Agency, carries […]
How do you convey the yawning abyss of infinity that is a black hole to a person who hasn’t immersed themselves in non-Euclidean geometries with infinite dimensions, the ‘math side’ of superstring theory, and the century-long pursuit of a unified theory of physics? If you’re Dr. Valery Vermeulen, you mix it into an LP. Mikromedas […]
By now, just about everyone knows about black holes: the all-consuming regions in outer space that are so dense that not even light can escape from their mysterious interior. But those are only one kind of black hole, even if they are the most famous of the bunch. There can be other kinds of black […]