USTC researchers revolutionize understanding of supermassive black hole accretion radiation in quasars
Associate Professor CAI Zhenyi and Professor WANG Junxian from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Science and Technology ...
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Monitoring of radio galaxy M87 confirms black hole spin
The nearby radio galaxy M87, located 55 million light-years from the Earth and harboring a black hole 6.5 billion times ...
NASA’s Swift learns a new trick, spots a snacking black hole
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which launched in 2004, scientists have discovered a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly ...
How does “MAD” accretion form around a black hole?
An international scientific team has revealed for the first time the magnetic field transport processes in the accretion flow of ...
Webb detects most distant active supermassive black hole to date
Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, ...
Webb Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole
Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...
X-ray emissions from black hole jets vary unexpectedly, challenging leading model of particle acceleration
Researchers discovered only relatively recently that black hole jets emit x-rays, and how the jets accelerate particles to this high-energy ...
NASA’s Hubble hunts for intermediate-sized black hole close to home
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the ...
Tidal shocks can light up the remains of a star being pulled apart by a black hole
The Universe is a violent place where even the life of a star can be cut short. This occurs when ...
The mystery of the runaway supermassive black hole, solved
A mysterious trail of stars formed eight thousand million years ago and recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope has ...
Astronomers detect the closest example yet of a black hole devouring a star
Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart ...
Astronomers image for the first time a black hole expelling a powerful jet
An international team of scientists led by Dr. LU Rusen from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...
New black hole images reveal a glowing, fluffy ring and a high-speed jet
In 2017, astronomers captured the first image of a black hole by coordinating radio dishes around the world to act as a ...
Uncovering a star’s demise: Supermassive black hole tears apart a giant star in a display brighter, more energetic and longer lasting than any observed before
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A distant star, dying a fiery and dramatic death, torn apart by a supermassive black hole ...
Could this copycat black hole be a new type of star?
It looks like a black hole and bends light like a black hole, but it could actually be a new ...
M87 in 3D: New view of galaxy helps pin down mass of the black hole at its core
Seen from Earth, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 is just a two-dimensional blob, though one that appears perfectly symmetrical and ...
A sharper look at the M87 black hole
The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of M87—sometimes referred to as the “fuzzy, orange donut”—has ...
Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar ...
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution helps lead groundbreaking study on the human and ocean health impacts of ocean plastics
March 21, 2023 — For the first time, leading researchers from the fields of healthcare, ocean science, and social science ...
Pusan National University researchers develop novel stackable hole injection layer material for solution-processed OLEDs
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are widely used in cameras, mobile phones, television sets, and other modern day electronic devices. ...
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Researchers uncover NSMF protein’s role in relieving DNA replication stress
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Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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‘Bone biographies’ reveal lives of medieval England’s common people – and illuminate early benefits system
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Study tests firefighter turnout gear with, without PFAS
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Mass General-developed brain care score (BCS) is a scientifically validated way to assess current health habits and risk to future brain health