A black hole discovered in Cosmic Dawn is simply too big to easily explain. It is located at the center of a galaxy called J1120+0641 and has a mass of over a billion suns. There are larger black holes all around us today. The problem is the when of the existence of J1120+0641. Less than … Read more
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the “cosmic dawn” that appears impossibly massive. The confusion stems from the fact that this giant void doesn’t appear to have been feeding on much surrounding matter at the time – but to reach its immense size, you’d expect it … Read more
The monster black hole The center of our Milky Way can unleash huge, gaseous explosions – and now astronomers think they’ve found the exact spot where that superheated gas flows into the Milky Way. Acting as a giant exhaust vent, the newly discovered feature is a bright region of X-ray energy located nearly 700 light-years … Read more
A gigantic explosion that shook part of Russia more than a century ago has never been categorically explained. And yet, some scientists believe this could be the result of a very close encounter with a mysterious form of black hole. The extraordinary explosion occurred just after 7 a.m. on June 30, 1980, over the Podkamennaya … Read more
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that appears impossibly massive. The confusion stems from the fact that it doesn’t appear that this gigantic void was feasting on much surrounding matter at the time – but to reach its immense size you would expect it … Read more
A bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, emits radiation that pushes clouds of gas away from its surroundings, generating winds at speeds of about 58 million kilometers per hour. Oh, and the quasar is also almost as old as the universe itself. The discovery, made by a team of scientists led by astronomers … Read more
A bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, emits radiation that pushes clouds of gas away from its surroundings, generating winds at speeds of about 58 million kilometers per hour. Oh, and the quasar is also almost as old as the universe itself. The discovery, made by a team of scientists led by astronomers … Read more
Astronomers are witnessing a never-before-seen spectacle in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers took note of an otherwise unremarkable galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. A sudden spike in the galaxy’s brightness … Read more
Low Earth orbit, a low superhighway that wraps around Earth’s thermosphere some 300 to 600 kilometers above our heads, is once again overloaded. Yet no one knows how the massive increase in the number of satellites orbiting the Earth will affect the atmosphere, and thus life below. With the rush to send up more and … Read more
The cosmic puzzle created by evidence of apparently enormous black holes in the very early universe continues to deepen. Observations by the JWST of one such anomaly, known as J1120+0641, indicate that the once favored explanation for how these objects could emit so much light so soon after the Big Bang is unlikely, forcing astronomers … Read more