For a few short nights each year, you have a rare chance to see a monster blink. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released new, detailed images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy. The pictures don’t just show a shiny ring. They also track polarized light, a clue … Read more
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. An illustration of matter pouring into a black hole, crossing an Einstein-Rosen bridge and emerging into another region of the universe. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva) This article was originally published at The conversation. The publication … Read more
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. A new paper suggests that an incredibly energetic neutrino that slammed into Earth in 2023 could have been unleashed by an exploding black hole. | Credit: Illustration by Tobias Roetsch for All About Space Magazine/Future Publishing via Getty … Read more
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. An illustration showing the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, where the inner region of the disk wobbles. | Credit: NASA Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a supermassive black hole, which is tearing … Read more