Black holes

The gravitational collapse and the black hole spewing jets of matter. Photo: the e-Merlin radio telescope array

A jet spitting out a black hole is seen in the first image of a new telescope array in the UK

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The array is spread over a large area within Great Britain and will function as one telescope, which improves its resolution
Supernova SN1979C is a likely candidate for the youngest black hole ever observed. Photo: NASA

The Chandra Space Telescope has discovered an extremely young and relatively nearby black hole

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In the photo: a space map showing the two paths of gamma rays above and below the galaxy according to Fermi's measurements. Image: NASA

NASA scientists have discovered two mysterious giant bubbles on either side of the Milky Way

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The center of the Milky Way, which also contains the black hole *Sagittarius A. The black hole and several massive young stars in this region create the heated gas vapor visible at X-ray frequencies. Photo: Helvin Chandra, Harvard University and Tokyo University

The Laboratory for Testing General Relativity: The Supermassive Black Hole and the Star

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An active galactic nucleus. Image: NASA

The bombardment of galactic cores by gas clouds causes their illumination

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An electromagnetic black hole. Photo: Nanjing University in China

Scientists create an artificial "black hole".

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Prof. Donald Linden-Bell

Astrophysicist Donald Linden-Bell will receive an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University

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Marked with a white circle is the black hole at the center of the galaxy, and in red - the black hole kicked out of it. Illustration: Marian Heide and NASA

A black hole is kicked out of its galaxy

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time travel. Illustration: shutterstock

Hawking: Time travel is possible but only into the future

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A huge eruption of material from a black hole at the center of a galaxy. Image: NASA

Repeated massive explosions caused the development of stars to stop in the early universe

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The quasar pair SDSS_J1254+0846

A merging of galaxies creates a binary quasar

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A merger of a white dwarf and a tiny black hole forming a new tiny black hole. Figure: SLOAN sky survey

An exotic source of cosmic radiation: mini black holes

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An electroweak star

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A galaxy collision restarts a black hole

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A new image of the center of the galaxy from the Chandra Space Telescope

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Spitzer photographed the Big Eye galaxy

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A mega-telescope will examine the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way

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Prof. Shahar Hod from Hadassah College Jerusalem won a prestigious award from the International Gravity Research Foundation

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Hundreds of "rogue" black holes wander the Milky Way and swallow everything in their path

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Shock waves from the black hole traverse the galaxy

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Weizmann Institute scientists have identified the largest exploding star ever observed

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For the first time, a pair of black holes was discovered, a phenomenon that was considered theoretical until now

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Dimensional gates and time travel

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Black holes predate galaxies

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The Hubble Space Telescope photographed the flying spaghetti monster

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Forget neutron stars, quark stars may be the most dense objects in the universe

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Further confirmation of Einstein's theory of general relativity: black holes of all sizes have similar eating habits

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Is Earth about to be swallowed by a black hole?

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The center of the Milky Way, which also contains the black hole *Sagittarius A. The black hole and several massive young stars in this region create the heated gas vapor visible at X-ray frequencies. Photo: Helvin Chandra, Harvard University and Tokyo University

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way erupted 300 years ago

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wormhole Photo: depositphotos.com

John Wheeler, who coined the terms black holes and wormholes, has died

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In 1997 I interviewed him for the newspaper "Haaretz" when he came to receive the Wolf Prize. The article that was published under the title "The holes that hold the universe" is no longer relevant after the discovery of Hubble in the late nineties
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The smallest black hole has been discovered

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Integral apparently discovered a black hole in the Milky Way

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Prof. Jacob Beckenstein, Hebrew University. From Wikipedia

Scientific American: Interview with Prof. Yaakov Bekenstein, winner of the Israel Prize in Physics XNUMX

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Spitzer revealed hidden, hungry black holes

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An eye for an eye with a black hole

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Japan has launched a satellite that will study the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies

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New research finds black holes 'devouring' neutron stars in quick gulps

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Quantum physicist: Black holes don't exist

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Prof. Jacob Bekenstein from the Hebrew University is the recipient of the Israel Prize in Physics

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Researchers from the University of Oklahoma and China examined observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and discovered two massive black holes in the quasar Mercarian 231. Photo: Space Telescope Science Facility, Baltimore, Maryland.

Astronomical observation of a black hole feast

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The dust has been removed from the black hole at the center of our galaxy

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The vortex of the black hole. Image: NASA

Hawking backtracked on his position on black holes

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The arrow of time and the Archimedes point are new directions for the physics of time

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A giant black hole, recently discovered, creates 4 different figures in the eyes of the observer

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How can a black hole be discovered?

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A researcher from the Weizmann Institute shared in the discovery of the mass of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

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The center of the Milky Way. In this image painted with artificial colors, the lines are emphasized that reveal the dust region of Sagittarius A - East - remnants of an ancient supernova. The photo was published in 2015

Scientists have confirmed the existence of the black hole at the heart of the "Milky Way"

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Holes in theory - and in reality

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Israeli researchers have developed a method to measure the mass of black holes

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New light on black holes

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