Adânc în apele turcoaz din Caraibe, în largul coastei Belizei, se află una dintre cele mai impresionante doline subacvatice din lume: Marea gaură albastră. Această dolină naturală, formată în urmă cu aproximativ 10.000 de ani, la sfârșitul ultimei ere glaciare, a fost mult timp un loc de explorare fascinant pentru scafandri și oameni de știință. […]
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First ever wandering black hole discovered in our galaxy
Astronomers say the black hole is invisible, so they had to study its effects on light traveling through surrounding space Astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland have published a study, claiming to have identified a wandering black hole in the Milky Way galaxy for the first time. Kailash Sahu, who led […]
Rare ‘missing link’ black hole found – study
An intermediate-mass black hole located in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy fills a ‘large gap’ in the understanding of the cosmic objects Astronomers have discovered a black hole “unlike any other” housed in a star cluster in the nearby Andromeda Galaxy. The “intermediate mass” object is thought to be one of a rare third type of […]
Black hole seen ‘giving birth’ to stars
NASA’s Hubble telescope captures ‘nursery’ of newborn stars connected by an ‘umbilical cord’ to a black hole in a nearby galaxy A black hole has been observed “triggering the birth” of new stars in a nearby dwarf galaxy, suggesting that the mysterious cosmic phenomena are more than just “villainous” destructive objects that violently consume everything […]
‘Monster’ black hole found in dwarf galaxy
The newly discovered ‘supermassive’ black hole is ‘among the smallest’ of its kind, but could answer some big questions Astronomers have found a “supermassive” black hole containing around 200,000 times the mass of the Sun. This “monster” buried in the dust and gas of a dwarf galaxy could add to knowledge about the size and […]
Black hole eruption as big as 16 Moons captured in ‘most comprehensive’ image
Scientists have captured images of a supermassive black hole some 12 million light years from Earth A new study of the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole has revealed that the space phenomenon emits radio bubbles which extend over vast tracts of space when it feeds on infalling gas. In a piece published in Nature […]