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Watch A Massive Black Hole Snack On A Planet
Over 47 million light years away, in a galaxy called NGC 4845, there’s one hungry black hole. In fact, scientists have watched in awe as, soon after it stirred from dormancy, it chomped away at a planet 30 times the mass of Jupiter.
NASA Puts New Spin On Black Holes
Scientists in the US have successfully used a new NASA telescope to help improve our understanding of how black holes and galaxies evolve. Using data taken by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, scientists were able to measure the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our Sun.
A Black Hole Devouring A Star Is One Hell Of An Amazing View
Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns — its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it with infinite hunger.
Cosmic Hurricane Tearing Through Our Universe
If you thought space was a peaceful vacuum, think again: scientists have discovered the fastest winds ever observed on a stellar-mass black hole, and they reach an incredible 32 million kilometres per hour.
New Type Of Black Hole May Show How Galaxies Are Formed
Intermediate black holes could tell us how galaxies are formed, as well as how black holes go from teeny tiny to being supermassive.
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