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Black holes

June 2024

  • A galaxy (Photograph: ESO/M. Kornmesser/PA Wire)

    Science Weekly
    A black hole awakens and why some people avoid Covid: the week in science – podcast

  • A gassy disc of glowing orange light, with a bright white spot in the centre, in space

    Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun

May 2024

  • An image from Nasa showing the ZS7 galaxy system

    Black holes observed colliding when universe was only 740m years old

    Glimpse of galactic merger, via James Webb telescope, may explain presence of monster black holes

April 2024

  • Artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole around their common centre of mass.

    Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times mass of sun

    BH3 spotted when scientists chanced upon star in Aquila constellation ‘wobbling’ under its gravitational force

February 2024

  • An artist's impression of the record-breaking quasar

    Astronomers discover universe’s brightest object – a quasar powered by a black hole that eats a sun a day

    Light from the celestial object, which is 500tn times brighter than our sun, travelled for more than 12bn years to reach Earth

December 2023

  • Carlo Rovelli at the 2023 Venice film festival.

    White Holes by Carlo Rovelli review – space odyssey

  • galaxy cluster

    Revealed: the oldest black hole ever observed, dating to dawn of universe

October 2023

  • Black hole and white hole with nebula over stars and cloud fields in outer space.

    White Holes: Inside the Horizon review – Carlo Rovelli turns time on its head

  • Carlo Rovelli.

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  • Black hole discovered<br>Undated handout artist impression of a black hole drifting through the Milky Way galaxy. An ultramassive black hole around 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by astronomers in the UK. Scientists from Durham University said the gargantuan black hole is one of the biggest ever found. Issue date: Friday June 10, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE BlackHole. Photo credit should read: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger/N. Bartmann/Durham University/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

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    Black holes, but backwards: unlocking the mysteries of white holes – podcast

  • A handout illustration of perfectly spherical explosion, called a kilonova<br>A perfectly spherical explosion, called a kilonova, that followed the merger of two very defense objects called neutron stars - remnants of massive stars after supernova explosions Ð that was observed 140-150 million light-years away from Earth is seen in this handout illustration obtained by Reuters on February 15, 2023. Albert Sneppen/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. MANDATORY CREDIT.

    Creation of rare heavy elements witnessed in neutron-star collision

September 2023

  • The Event Horizon Telescope captured the black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 in April 2019.

    First evidence of spinning black hole detected by scientists

  • Swift J0230, as captured by the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii.

    Astronomers spot star being ‘repeatedly shredded and consumed’ by black hole

July 2023

  • Prof Silke Weinfurtner in the Black Hole Laboratory standing next to written theory and on the right is the Superfluid Helium set up for the black hole simulator. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    Eureka! Scientists explore mysteries of black holes with hi-tech bathtub

    Nottingham University researchers are simulating black holes with a tiny vortex inside a bell jar of superfluid helium

June 2023

  • Artist's impression of a black hole

    Astronomers detect ‘cosmic bass note’ of gravitational waves

  • The cosmic threads found in the Milky Way galaxy

    Scientists discover mysterious cosmic threads in Milky Way

May 2023

  • GS-9209 galaxy on star map

    Supermassive black hole at heart of ancient galaxy ‘far larger than expected’

    Discovery of GS-9209, one of the furthest from the Milky Way, adds to evidence that large black holes prevent star formation, astronomers say

  • Spacewatch
    ‘Absolutely gargantuan’: astrophysicist explains largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed – video

    Scientists at Southampton University said they believe it was caused by a giant gas cloud getting pulled into a black hole
  • Artist's impression of a black hole

    Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

    Fireball ‘100 times the size of the solar system’ thought to have been caused by gas being sucked into supermassive black hole

April 2023

  • Image showing the jet and shadow of the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy together for the first time.

    Astronomers capture first image of jet being launched from edge of black hole

    Study concerns Messier 87 galaxy, 55m light years away from Earth, and a black hole 6.5bn times more massive than the sun
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