Black Holes Archives | Search Articles | Astronomy Trek https://www.astronomytrek.com/black-holes-2/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:03:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Astronomy and the Study of Black Holes https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/the-study-of-black-holes/ Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:42:41 +0000 https://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14685 Black holes have been an object of fascination ever since Einstein predicted them in 1916 using his then newly developed theory of general relativity. We have come a long way since then. Kip Thorne calculated ...

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]]> Gargantuan Black Hole With 40 Billion Times Sun’s Mass Discovered https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/biggest-supermassive-black-hole/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:24:06 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14060 A truly enormous black hole been discovered in the constellation Cetus with a mass equivalent to 40 billion times that of our sun. Put another way, this black hole is so enormous that its mass ...

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]]> The Hazards Of Living Close To A Black Hole https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/habitable-planets-black-hole/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:32:17 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=14003 Could life exist on a planet orbiting a supermassive black hole? And if so what would existence on such a planet be like? Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in ...

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]]> Supermassive Black Hole Image A First For Astronomy https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/historic-supermassive-black-hole-image/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 11:28:58 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=13775 This week, the world of astronomy has been abuzz with news of the very first supermassive black hole image. The supermassive black hole is located 55 million light-years away at the center of M87, a ...

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]]> Tens of Thousands of Black Holes Found in the Milky Way https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-black-holes-found-in-the-milky-way/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-black-holes-found-in-the-milky-way/#respond Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:41:50 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=12590 The image above shows the Milky Way stretching across the sky, with Sgr A*, the area of space that contains both the center of the galaxy and a super massive black hole, directly above the ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/tens-of-thousands-of-black-holes-found-in-the-milky-way/feed/ 0 Cache of Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Discovered https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/cache-of-colliding-supermassive-black-holes-discovered/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/cache-of-colliding-supermassive-black-holes-discovered/#respond Sat, 07 Oct 2017 12:42:43 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=11684 Stellar black holes formed after a massive star gravitational collapses have masses ranging from between 5 and 100 times that of the Sun. Supermassive black holes (SMBH) that lurk at the centre of galaxies, on ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/cache-of-colliding-supermassive-black-holes-discovered/feed/ 0 Event Horizon Telescope to Glimpse Milky Way’s Black Hole https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/event-horizon-telescope-to-glimpse-milky-ways-black-hole/ https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/event-horizon-telescope-to-glimpse-milky-ways-black-hole/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:37:50 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=10412 Astronomers have now brought the Event Horizon Telescope online, and turned it towards the supermassive black hole situated at the center of our Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The 10-day project will run ...

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]]> https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/event-horizon-telescope-to-glimpse-milky-ways-black-hole/feed/ 0 Gravitational Waves May Create Permanent Distortions in Spacetime https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/gravitational-waves-may-create-permanent-distortions-in-spacetime/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:12:08 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=9093 Gravitational waves have long been a puzzle for scientists, and while Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity predicted their existence, the renowned physicist was on record as saying he wasn’t sure they could exist. This year, ...

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]]> Quasar Found 420 Trillion Times Brighter Than Our Sun https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/quasar-found-420-trillion-times-brighter-than-our-sun/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:23:15 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=5725 An international team of astronomers have discovered a huge quasar 420 trillion times brighter than our sun around 12.8 billion light years away from Earth, placing its formation around 875 million years after the big ...

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]]> Galaxy Mergers Not Needed For Supermassive Black Holes https://www.astronomytrek.com/news/galaxy-mergers-not-necessary-to-create-supermassive-black-holes/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:59:24 +0000 http://www.astronomytrek.com/?p=4826 According to the latest data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), galaxy mergers may not be necessary in order to create supermassive black holes, but instead could have formed early in the universe’s ...

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