This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it would be under an inch across. This profound density gives black holes ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
James Webb Telescope discovers monster black hole consuming matter 40 times faster than anything thought possible
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is consuming matter at an extraordinary rate, surpassing the theoretical Eddington limit by more than 40 times.
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Space Innovations: Wooden Satellites and Primordial Black Holes
Recent advancements in space technology include Japan's launch of the first wooden satellite, cutting-edge research on black holes by NASA's James Webb Telescope, Axiom Space's exploration of Indian ...
Hungriest supermassive black hole discovered in early universe by astronomers
Astronomers have detected the hungriest black hole in the early universe with the help of Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It has been found that the black hole ...
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Black hole after 1.5b years of Big Bang
The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8 billion ...
10 unseen pictures of star clusters captured by NASA
The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the “mountains” and “valleys” spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Saturn's Changing Season
Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope is seeing farther than human eyes ...
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'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?
The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...
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'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to new physics, a study suggests.
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This Stunning New Atlas Explores Humanity’s Ancient Relationship With Space and the Universe
Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...