In the new documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, the work of Stephen Hawking and others in trying to figure out a…
Supermassive black holes devour gas just like their petite counterparts / news.mit.edu
On Sept. 9, 2018, astronomers spotted a flash from a galaxy 860 million light years away. The source was a supermassive black hole about 50…
THE SEARCH FOR RARE SPECIES OF AURORA / supercluster.com
From China and Japan to Scandinavia and beyond, people from all over the planet have their own supernatural interpretations of the aurorae. In the His Dark…
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell /techregister.co.uk
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have pockets of water in its icy shell that could support life, study finds Researchers studied images of features on the…
Watch the Moon turn red during this month’s total lunar eclipse/astronomy.com
Total eclipses of the Moon are fun. During one of these events, the entire Moon passes through Earth’s umbra, the innermost and darkest part of…
Telescopes Combine in Latest Observations of Famous Black Hole Across the Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum /robologiclab.com/
In April 2019, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), researchers issued the first image of a black hole in galaxy M87. Yet, that exceptional act…
Nova Cassiopeia 2021 suddenly brightens into naked-eye visibility / astronomynow.com
Nova Cas 2021 (V1405 Cas) has brightened by around two magnitudes in the past few days. The image on the left shows it on 5…
What Is a Black Hole?
Black holes are among the most fascinating objects in our universe, and also the most mysterious.A black hole is a region in space, where the…
A Beginners Guide to Black Holes.
Black holes are one of the strangest things in existence. They don’t seem to make any sense at all.Where do they come from and what…
A Relic Black Hole in a Dwarf Galaxy /aasnova.org
Using a new technique, scientists have identified a supermassive black hole lurking in a low-mass, low-metallicity galaxy. Could this discovery be just the tip of…