Incredible picture of a massive black hole that is so powerful it has prevented TRILLIONS of stars from forming. Black whole is at the center of a gaseous cloud one quadrillion times the size of our sunLocated in galaxy cluster RC J1532 more than 3.9billion light years away By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:42 GMT, 27 January 2014 | Updated: 21:09 GMT, 27 January 2014 NASA has released a stunning image of a black hole that is so massive and so powerful that it has prevented trillions of stars from forming around it.
Black hole birth witnessed - Technology & Science. This composite image shows the location of the supernova SN 1979C within the galaxy M100.
((NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Patnaude et al/ESO/VLT;NASA/JPL/Caltech)) Scientists have found what appears to be a black hole formed during a supernova observed 30 years ago. "If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed," said Daniel Patnaude, the astrophysicist who led the team that found the black hole, in a statement Monday. Patnaude, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and his team are publishing their results in the New Astronomy journal, said a NASA news release. Gas blob comes late to black hole supper - space - 08 January 2014. Our Milky Way galaxy is a secretive snacker.
A huge blob of gas is falling towards the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, but so far the predicted feeding frenzy has been a quiet affair. The main meal will come a bit later than previously expected, with the bulk of the cloud getting closest to the black hole some time in March. Astronomers first spotted the cloud, called G2, in 2011 and determined that it will skim unusually close to the black hole's maw. Originally it looked like the cloud would make its closest approach in September 2013, spurring excitement over the possibility of getting our first good look at our black hole's feeding habits. This could help solve a number of puzzles. "Black holes need to grow, and we think they grow by accreting mass," Leo Meyer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), said today at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Maryland.
Spaghettification Shrouded star "Will there be fireworks? More From New Scientist. "Could Swallow Our Solar System Whole" (Weekend Feature) The black hole at the center of the super giant elliptical galaxy M87 in cluster Virgo fifty million light-years away is the most massive black hole for which a precise mass has been measured -6.6 billion solar masses.
Orbiting the galaxy is an abnormally large population of about 12,000 globular clusters, compared to 150-200 globular clusters orbiting the Milky Way. In 2011, using the Frederick C. Some black holes may be older than time. Stuart Gary for ABC Science Online Updated Fri 6 May 2011, 5:48pm AEST An intriguing new hypothesis suggests some black holes could have formed before the formation of our universe.
The work by Professor Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London and Professor Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University, examines a cosmology in which the universe goes through cycles of birth and death. According to their work published on the pre-press website arXiv.org, some black holes could be remnants of a previous universe that collapsed in a big crunch and was then reborn in the big bang - 13.7 billion years ago. Called primordial black holes, they would be formed in the hyper dense conditions existing in the moments after the big bang. Professor Carr and Professor Coley say if the universe expands and contracts in cycles of big bangs and big crunches, some primordial black holes may survive.
Pushing the boundaries Topics: the-universe, blackholes, mathematics, physics, england, qld, canada. Astronomers Poised to Capture the First Image of a Supermassive Black Hole. "The Event Horizon Telescope is the first to resolve spatial scales comparable to the size of the event horizon of a black hole," said University of California, Berkeley astronomer Jason Dexter.
"I don't think it's crazy to think we might get an image in the next five years. " First postulated by Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, the existence of black holes has since been supported by decades' worth of observations, measurements and experiments. But never has it been possible to directly observe and image one of these maelstroms whose sheer gravity exerts such cataclysmic power they twist and mangle the very fabric of space and time.