Binary Black Holes- Black Holes that May have Collided
A Binary Black Hole (BBH) is a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. Like…
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The Photon Sphere
For a non-spinning (spherically symmetric) black hole, the photon sphere is a spherical region of space where gravity is strong…
What is a White hole?
White hole is a hypothetical region of spacetime and singularity that cannot be entered from the outside, although energy-matter, light…
Powerful Magnetic Fields in Space Have Been Seen in Bending Black Hole Jets
In a galaxy cluster called Abell 3376, some 600 million light-years from Earth, one galaxy has an active supermassive black…
Reflections from a Black Hole
This 2003 composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active galaxy, NGC 1068, shows gas blowing…
String theory solves the mystery of the behavior of photons around a black hole
A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Director Ooguri Hirosi and…
BINARY BLACK HOLE
A binary black hole is a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. Like black…
Astronomers Discover Gigantic Jet Of Particles Coming From A Supermassive Black Hole
By using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, few astronomers have evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles which come from…
Are magnetic fields the key to black hole activity?
Collimated jets provide astronomers with some of the most powerful evidence that a supermassive black hole lurks in the heart…
TOM 618, The monster
TON 618, a hyperluminous quasar, stands an astounding 10.4 billion light-years away in the far-flung reaches of the Canes Venatici…