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The strange 2% rule: Why black holes suddenly switch on their powerful jets

A new study reveals black holes become predictable when feeding. Jets emerge when accretion rates fall to two percent of the Eddington limit. This threshold applies to black holes of vastly different sizes. Tidal disruption events offer a rare view of this process. Future observations may predict when these powerful…

The Economic Times · Sep 21

55 million light-years away, scientists spot something unusual: A strange galactic collision may have left this spiral galaxy with a centre that spins sideways

The Hubble telescope captured images of spiral galaxy NGC 4698. Its central bulge is tilted at an unusual angle to the main disk. Astronomers suggest this structure resulted from past gas absorption or a minor merger. This galaxy is located in the Virgo Cluster, approximately 55 million light-years away. Further…

The Economic Times · Sep 18

A black hole destroys a star, then fires off a powerful jet years later — scientists discover the 'burping' feeding pattern behind these cosmic outbursts

Scientists have found a new trend in black hole feeding patterns. Powerful jets emerge during two distinct phases of a black hole's feeding process. These jets appear during heavy feeding and later when feeding slows significantly. This discovery helps explain jet appearances long after a star's destruction. The findings may…

The Economic Times · Sep 17

Science says black holes don’t actually suck everything around them: Here’s what really happens

Black Holes are called black because light cannot escape from inside their event horizons. Astronomers nevertheless detect black holes indirectly through their effects on nearby matter, gravitational lensing, stellar orbits and radiation from accretion disks.

The Economic Times · Sep 5

Do you need to worry about the Sun turning into a black hole?

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The Conversation · Sep 3

Supermassive black holes 'too big' for the early universe may not be so massive after all

Over massive supermassive black holes too big for early galaxies and detected by the James Webb Space Telescope may not be quite so massive after all.

Space · Sep 2

Why do black hole flares die out? It may be down to how stars spin

Some stars encounter supermassive black holes and live to tell the tale. New research shows why the flares these encounters cause dim over repeated episodes.

Space · Sep 1

Burnham warned trans-pacific £2bn trade boost fails ‘to plug Brexit black hole’

The warnings come after The Independent revealed last week that the UK has lost £11.7bn a year in trade as a result of leaving the EU while 98.2 per cent of businesses want access to the single market again

The Independent UK · Aug 31

16-year-old guitarist wins over America's Got Talent with Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun: “I think you could really win this competition – you can sing and you can play that guitar, insanely”

After covering The Cranberries and Muse in previous rounds, Nene Royal continued to stun the audience and judges with her searing rendition of Soundgarden's signature song

Guitar World · Aug 26

'Dark stars' could be the seeds of supermassive black holes, scientists say

A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead "dark stars" that served as the seeds of the first supermassive black holes.

Space · Aug 21