Quasars — galactic cores containing active supermassive black holes — are among the most ancient things in the universe. As dust and gas accelerate toward the quasar's central black hole, the ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten the first-ever look at the light of ancient stars shining around some of the biggest, brightest and oldest black holes in the ...
Ivan is a freelance science writer based in the UK. He enjoys covering a variety of topics within science, and holds a PhD in medicinal chemistry. Using the James Webb Space Telescope , astronomers ...
NASA reveals what it would be like to get sucked into a black hole Researchers have finally confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s key predictions about gravity after observing a “plunging region ...
May 29, 2024 — Researchers have applied the well-understood and highly verified quantum field theory, usually applied to the study of the very small, to a new target, the early universe.
Einstein's theory of general relativity revolutionized our understanding of gravity in 1915. Among its many predictions, the idea that matter close to a black hole would suddenly abandon its orbit to ...
A prediction originally made by Albert Einstein about a "plunging region" around black holes has finally been confirmed. Researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom discovered that ...
Einstein’s theory predicted that this final plunge would exist. Contrary to Newton’s theory of gravity, Einstein’s theory posits that particles cannot safely follow circular orbits when near a black ...
A black hole pulling material from a companion star towards it, forming a disc that rotates around the black hole before falling into it. Credit: NASA / CXC/ M. Weiss.
A James Webb Telescope image shows the J0148 quasar circled in red. Two insets show, on top, the central black hole, and on bottom, the stellar emission from the host galaxy. A team of MIT astronomers ...