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A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it’s all thanks to the observing powers of the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. However, exactly what the black hole is doing to the star remains in question as there are conflicting X-ray measurements. Black holes come in …

The Yankees found their third baseman in the Rocky Mountains. The Bronx Bombers landed Ryan McMahon from the Rockies in exchange for two prospects to fill their glaring hole at third base, The Post’s Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman confirmed. The Yankees are sending Colorado lefty pitching prospect Griffin Herring, ranked eighth in their system by MLB.com, and righty minor …

A study analyzing JWST observations of the early universe has uncovered an intriguing mystery: most galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This unexpected pattern, which defies current cosmological models, has led the study’s authors to propose a bold possibility: that our universe might exist inside a black hole. The JWST has allowed astronomers to peer back further …

Supermassive black holes represent one of the biggest head-scratchers in the Universe. These behemoths weighing millions to tens of billions of Suns lurk at the center of just about every galaxy – the gravitational heart around which stars and planets and clouds of shimmering gas whirl in an intricate dance. What we don’t know is how these giants are born. …

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster in a giant elliptical galaxy. Just a few years after its 1990 launch, Hubble discovered that galaxies throughout the …

IN A NUTSHELL 🌌 Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an unusual black hole in the Infinity Galaxy. 💥 The galaxy’s unique infinity shape resulted from a head-on collision of two disk galaxies. 🔭 The discovery challenges traditional theories, suggesting a direct collapse formation of black holes. 🧐 Researchers are analyzing data to confirm if the black hole …

Astrophysicists don’t know if direct-collapse black holes are real. They were hypothesized to explain how the Universe could contain supermassive black holes (SMBH) so early. They don’t require a stellar progenitor, nor do they require hierarchical merging. Instead, they collapse due to instability in a gas cloud, much like stars do. Recently, astronomers working with images from the COSMOS-Web survey, …

Coming across a hole in the Antarctic that is larger than Maryland might well be cause for concern. In 2016 and 2017, scientists saw just that: gaping wide in the middle of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea were giant holes in the sea ice. These holes, called polynyas, hadn’t been seen on this scale since the 1970s, when New Zealand-sized holes were …

LIGO Detects Black Hole Smashup So Extreme It’s Bending Einstein’s Rules  SciTechDaily Heaviest Black Hole Merger Flouts a Forbidden Gap  American Physical Society Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date  CNN Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.  Popular Mechanics Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns  USA Today Source …

In world breakthrough, scientists see star survive encounter with a black hole  The Times of Israel Israeli-led team first to observe star survive black hole and return  Ynetnews This star survived a black hole—and came back for more  Phys.org In a Stunning First, Scientists Have Watched a Star Survive a Black Hole Encounter  The Debrief Source link