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Oppenheimer: Remembering the physics that first made him great

J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

The Hindu

A supermassive black hole is spitting a high-energy jet toward Earth

Tapping into cosmic X-rays, NASA's IXPE satellite has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is tucked away deep in space.

Space

NASA to hunt deep space gamma-rays with new high-altitude balloon mission

NASA's new detector, known as ComPair, is slated to fly next month. The goal is to catch high-energy, invisible beams stemming from things like star explosions, supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts.

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'Ripe' Is Our August Book Club Pick

Read an excerpt of Sarah Rose Etter's new novel, here, then dive in with us throughout the month.

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Was Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, also the father of black holes?

The name Oppenheimer will always be synonymous with the power and destruction of the atomic bomb, but the physicist also played an essential role in the study of black holes.

Space

The Best Sci-Fi Reboot on Netflix Gets Some Fundamental Science Wrong

"Star Trek" reinvented the long-running franchise, but its grasp of black holes and the properties of its fictional red matter don't track.

Inverse

Eureka! Scientists explore mysteries of black holes with hi-tech bathtub

Nottingham University researchers are simulating black holes with a tiny vortex inside a bell jar of superfluid helium

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James Webb telescope discovers the oldest active black hole in the known universe

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a feeding supermassive black hole from when the universe was less than 600 million years old.

LiveScience

Webb Space Telescope spots most distant black hole yet. More may be lurking

Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using NASA's Webb Space Telescope

The Independent UK

Colliding black holes could hide in the light of superbright quasars

Only an extreme environment could hide the collision of two stellar-mass black holes — and feeding supermassive black holes could provide such cover.

Space

Time moved '5 times slower' in the early universe, mind-bending black hole study reveals

The observation that the universe appears to run slower in the past was made by scrutinizing the light emitted by gigantic quasars.

LiveScience

RTE facing €100million TV licence fee black hole as fierce backlash anticipated

The financial deficit is expected to run into millions as it remains to be seen how much the public will refuse to pay up

Irish Mirror

Gargantuan black hole 'switches on,' becoming one of the brightest objects ever seen

A black hole 10 billion light-years away suddenly 'switched on', becoming one of the brightest transient objects ever detected.

LiveScience

Hungry black hole 'switches on' as astronomers watch in surprise

Astronomers have witnessed one of the most dramatic "switching on" events ever seen as a distant supermassive black hole began greedily feasting on its surrounding matter.

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James Webb Space Telescope detects most distant active supermassive black hole ever seen

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date, and researchers aren't sure how it could have formed so early in the universe's history.

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Researchers discover 'most distant' active supermassive black hole

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Space

Gravitational waves could help us find out how fast the universe's expansion is accelerating

Gravitational waves from merging black holes distorted due to a phenomenon predicted by Einstein could be a new way of measuring the rate of cosmic expansion.

The Hindu

Humming of the universe caused by low-frequency gravitational waves found by IIT-H researchers

IIT-H researchers, as part of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) consortium, have found evidence for ultra-low frequency gravitational waves originating from a large number of ‘dancing monster black hole pairs’ more than a million times the size of the Sun.

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Webb spies early string of cosmic web

The invisible threadlike structure is anchored by a quasar raising questions about black holes

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Local councils in England at risk of insolvency over £3bn funding black hole

Several councils are in ‘an endgame’ where they face increasingly drastic action to balance the books, LGA says

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Cave In's Anchor: how the "emo-metal Radiohead" helped put the final nail in the nu metal coffin

Cave In almost became metal's next big thing after ditching metalcore, writing "their own Black Hole Sun" and touring with Foo Fighters and Muse

The Hindu

Ferocious black holes reveal 'time dilation' in early universe

Scientists observed a ferocious class of black holes called quasars to demonstrate “time dilation” in the early universe

Space

The universe is humming with gravitational waves. Here's why scientists are so excited about the discovery

The very fabric of the universe is ringing with gravitational waves from its earliest epoch, and researchers have finally "heard" this cosmic symphony.

Inverse

Astronomers Find a Supermassive Black Hole That Pits Stars Against Each Other

If you’re an evil genius supervillain looking to freak out your enemy with a big messy space kablooie, here’s a novel way to do it.

The Conversation

A subtle symphony of ripples in spacetime – astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes

An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational waves reverberating through the universe. By using dead stars as a giant network of gravitational wave detectors, the collaboration – called NANOGrav – was able to measure a low-frequency hum from a chorus of ripples of spacetime.

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