This is the world's 1st image of 2 black holes orbiting one another
After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of quasar OJ287.| Latest from Space.com
After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of quasar OJ287.| Latest from Space.com
Woah. The post The James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims appeared first on Futurism.| Futurism
Observations by a system of radio telescopes have offered the first visual evidence for the existence of black hole pairs. But vital follow-up observations are needed before we know for sure.| Latest from Live Science
International researchers who studied the merging of two black holes say their new observations match theories developed by Stephen Hawking and NZ scientist Roy Kerr over half a century ago. Professor Roy Kerr's 1963 research elegantly explained what space and time look like near a spinning black h| www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz
NASA’s Hubble and Chandra teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, called an intermediate-mass black hole.| NASA Science
[More technical post follows.] I've been working on this project with (UCSB postdoc) Maciej Kolanowski on and off for a while now, but only in the last couple of weeks did I have the time to hunker down and help push the writing of the results to the finish. For your Sunday reading pleasure, it is already up on the arXiv here (it came out Thursday but I've been too busy to pause to post about it - partly because I've begun work on writing up the next paper in the backlog). The title is "Exten...| Asymptotia
In January 2024 I wrote a paper showing how to define the Supersymmetric Virasoro Minimal String* (SVMS) as a random matrix model, compute many of its properties, and indeed predict many aspects of its physics. This was the first time the SVMS had been constructed. Despite that, a recent paper found it necessary to specifically single out my paper disparagingly as somehow not being a string theory paper, in service of (of course) their own work trying to formulate it. Odd - and disappointingl...| Asymptotia
Scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter.| The Hub
I realised just now that I entirely forgot (it seems) to post about an episode of PBS' show Nova called "Decoding the Universe: Cosmos" which aired back in the Spring. I thought they did a good job of talking about some of the advances in our understanding that have happened over the last 50 years (the idea is that it is the 50th anniversary of the show) in areas of astrophysics and cosmology. I was a contributor, filmed at the top of Mount Wilson at the Observatory where Hubble made his famo...| Asymptotia
The quantum dance of mini black holes offers potentials for understanding how accretion occurs at the subatomic level.| The Debrief
The most distant quasar ever observed challenges our understanding of how black holes formed. The post The Black Hole At The Edge Of The Universe appeared first on One Universe at a Time.| One Universe at a Time
