Do more with one link - claim and personalize your FREE link today! Effortlessly schedule, video meet, message chat, network, share materials, e-sign, etc – all in one spot. Collaborate, Nurture connections, Improve client services, Expedite deal closures, and more. 💼 Join FREE!!

Recent Comments

    blackhole tagged posts

    Outbursts of Hot Wind detected Close to Black Hole

    August 8, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Credit: John Paice/University of Southampton/Inter-University Centre for Astronomy

    An international team of astrophysicists from Southampton, Oxford and South Africa have detected a very hot, dense outflowing wind close to a black hole at least 25,000 light-years from Earth.

    Lead researcher Professor Phil Charles from the University of Southampton explained that the gas (ionised helium and hydrogen) was emitted in bursts which repeated every 8 minutes, the first time this behaviour has been seen around a black hole. The findings have been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

    The object Professor Charles’ team studied was Swift J1357...

    Read More

    Astronomers catch a black hole shredding a star to pieces

    October 22, 2015, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This illustration of a recently observed tidal disruption, named ASASSN-14li, shows a disk of stellar debris around the black hole at the upper left. A long tail of ejected stellar debris extends to the right, far from the black hole. The X-ray spectrum obtained with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (seen in the inset box) and ESA's XMM-Newton satellite both show clear evidence for dips in X-ray intensity over a narrow range of wavelengths. These dips are shifted toward bluer wavelengths than expected, providing evidence for a wind blowing away from the black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss

    This illustration of a recently observed tidal disruption, named ASASSN-14li, shows a disk of stellar debris around the black hole at the upper left. A long tail of ejected stellar debris extends to the right, far from the black hole. The X-ray spectrum obtained with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (seen in the inset box) and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite both show clear evidence for dips in X-ray intensity over a narrow range of wavelengths. These dips are shifted toward bluer wavelengths than expected, providing evidence for a wind blowing away from the black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss

    A team has observed the closest tidal disruption event in a galaxy that lies about 290 million light years from Earth...

    Read More

    Distant Black Hole Wave Twists like Giant Whip

    July 13, 2015, Categories  Astronomy/Space, Physics

    Fast-moving magnetic waves emanating from a distant supermassive black hole undulate like a whip whose handle is being shaken by a giant hand, according to a new study using National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Long Baseline Array. Scientists used this instrument to explore the galaxy/black hole system known as BL Lacertae (BL Lac) in high resolution.
    The findings help researchers understand how black holes produce jets.

    “The waves are excited by a shaking motion of the jet at its base,” said David Meier. It’s the 1st time Alfven waves have been identified in a black hole system. They are generated when magnetic field lines, such as those from the sun or a disk around a black hole, interact with ions, and become twisted or coiled into a helical shape...

    Read More