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 ...
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.
A prediction originally made by Albert Einstein about a "plunging region" around black holes has finally been confirmed.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 ...
The new findings are part of wide-ranging investigations into outstanding mysteries around black holes by astrophysicists at Oxford University Physics. This study focused on smaller black holes ...
In the realm of astrophysics, black holes stand as enigmatic cosmic entities, shrouded in mystery and awe-inspiring in their sheer gravitational might. To probe the depths of these cosmic abysses and ...
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 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 ...
Artist’s illustration of a black hole. Credit: NASA. The physics surrounding black holes is just plain weird. A gravitational well so strong that not even light can escape can do some pretty ...