Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. These objects aren’t really holes. They’re huge
Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. These objects aren’t really holes. They’re huge
Two astrophysicists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuk, have successfully tested a new method for determining the masses of black holes.News Staff
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If the supermassive black hole at the core of one of the largest galaxy clusters in the universe sets off pressure waves through the gases surrounding it, which form ripples in those gases that our telescopes can see... but nobody is there to hear ...
Besides the Perseus galaxy cluster, a sonification of an equally famous black hole was also released, called Messier 87 or M87. This black hole gained popularity in the science field after it came out from theEvent Horizon Project(EHT) in 2019. However, this sonification does not contain the...
“Future LIGO observing runs will tell us much more about the universe’s population of black holes, and it won’t be long before we’ll know if the scenario I outline is either supported or ruled out,” Kashlinsky said. Kashlinsky leads science team centered at Goddard that is pa...
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NASA Headquarters oversees the mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages Webb for the agency and oversees work on the mission performed by the Space Telescope Science Institute, Northrop Grumman, and other mission partn...