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Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Black Hole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-21 16:05:21

In 2019, scientists unveiled the first-ever images of a black hole, M87*. Those observations kickstarted a wave of new investigations into how black holes work, how they grow, and how they change. And now, after a few upgrades, the Event Horizon Telescope network is back with another bombshell centered on M87*—finding tantalizing evidence of previously unknown physics at the event horizon of the black hole itself. In a series of images taken by the EHT between 2017 and 2021, scientists observed

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Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Blackhole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-09-21 21:05:21

In 2019, scientists unveiled the first-ever images of a black hole, M87*. Those observations kickstarted a wave of new investigations into how black holes work, how they grow, and how they change. And now, after a few upgrades, the Event Horizon Telescope network is back with another bombshell centered on M87*—finding tantalizing of previously unknown physics at the event horizon of the black hole itself. In a series of images taken by the EHT between 2017 and 2021, scientists observed a comple

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Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-24 04:06:23

For the first time, astrophysicists have measured the recoil — or "kick," in the parlance — resulting from the birth of a new black hole that formed from the merger of two preexisting ones. The international team of researchers measured the ripples in the fabric of spacetime, known as gravitational waves, allowing them to get unprecedented insights into the turbulent dynamics of two black holes crashing into each other. The team analyzed data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitatio

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Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 05:22:22

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Researchers use laser light to form a tiny "optical pinhole" inside a nonlinear crystal, which also turns the infrared image into a visible image that a traditional silicon-based camera sensor can detect. With this setup, the researchers captured clear, wide-depth images without using any lenses, even in very low lig

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A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos

news.ycombinator.com Charlie Wood 2025-09-29 19:27:12

A black hole unlike any seen before has been spotted in the early universe. It’s huge and appears to be essentially on its own, with few stars circling it. The object, which may represent a whole new class of enormous “naked” black holes, upends the textbook understanding of the young universe. “This is completely off the scale,” said Roberto Maiolino, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge who helped reveal the nature of the object in a preprint posted on August 29. “It’s terribly ex

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Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-29 18:15:24

Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing as much energy in mere seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10 billion year lifespan. Typically, they're produced by stars dying in a spectacular supernova — a rapid collapse that completely obliterates the stellar object. But now, astronomers say they've detected a gamma ray burst that utterly defies explanation: it repeated multiple times over the course of a single day, as if the star somehow suffered back

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New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-03 05:41:19

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, the newly formed black hole will have a larger surface area. This became known as Hawking's area theorem. Analysis of the gravitational signal from a black hole merger detected in January provides the best observational evidence to date in support of Hawking's theorem, according to a new paper publis

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Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could ‘Rewrite the History of the Universe’

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-03 17:40:17

It’s been a fantastic week for Stephen Hawking’s black hole theories. Yesterday, LIGO confirmed the famed physicist’s prediction about black hole mergers. Now, another team believes they’ve found a way to observe primordial black holes—cosmic behemoths that emerged not from the ashes of dying stars but from the chaos of the early universe. In a paper published September 9 in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists make the bold prediction that, within the next decade, we will be able to w

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LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-06 06:00:00

LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves—ripples in space-time from powerful cosmic events—hit astrophysics more like a tidal wave than a ripple. At the dawn of its tenth anniversary, the multinational collaboration has set another scientific milestone, this time solving not one but two mysteries in black hole physics. A paper published today in Physical Review Letters describes how the LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration captured the sharpest-ever gravitational wave signal from a black hole me

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Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-11 04:45:29

Astronomers examining data from the James Webb Space Telescope say they've spotted what might be the oldest black hole in the universe, born less than a second after the Big Bang. Their findings, published in a new study awaiting peer review, could offer the best evidence yet of the existence of what's known as a primordial black hole, a hypothetical object that's divided scientists for decades. Potentially far smaller than their modern counterparts — perhaps as tiny as a planet or even an ato

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Rupert's Property

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 14:02:28

You can cut a hole in a cube that’s big enough to slide an identical cube through that hole! Think about that for a minute—it’s kind of weird. Amazingly, nobody could prove any convex polyhedron doesn’t have this property! It’s called ‘Rupert’s property’. Until this week. This week Steininger and Yurkevich proved there is a convex polyhedron that you can’t cut a hole in big enough to slide the entire polyhedron through the hole. It has 90 vertices, and apparently 240 edges and 152 faces. To

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Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-25 12:22:37

New fear unlocked: spontaneous black hole implosion. Fresh research predicts that planets may be able to accumulate enough dark matter to suddenly form a black hole at their core. As the intruder grows, catastrophe unfolds: it would then devour the world from the inside out, becoming a black hole with the same mass as its unfortunate meal. The findings, published as a study in the journal Physical Review D, are terrifying to contemplate. The intent, however, wasn't to haunt our dreams but to d

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Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

news.ycombinator.com Matt Von Hippel 2025-10-28 04:40:08

According to Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the behavior of a black hole depends on two numbers: how heavy it is, and how fast it is rotating. And that’s it. Black holes are said to have “no hair” — no features that distinguish them from their fellows with the same mass and spin. With new data, it has started to become possible to test this no-hair conjecture. Astronomers have detected hundreds of signals from colliding black holes over the past 10 years. In these dramatic even

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A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-08 10:15:00

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is searching for ways to diversify its economy, much like other energy communities across the Mountain West. For decades, a coal-fired power plant, now scheduled to shut down in the coming years, served as a reliable source of tax revenue, jobs, and e

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This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-15 09:15:23

At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found themselves looking at an entirely unexpected sight. “Everything else disappeared, even the bright central black hole, and only this little dot remained,” Elena Shablovinskaia, an astrophysicist at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, told Gizmodo. Shablovinskaia’s team believes they’ve discovered an entirely new kind of space ob

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Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 10:00:11

When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen before: "little red dots" peppering the ancient expanse of deep space, originating from around when the universe was just one billion years old. Ever since, we've struggled to explain what these faint signals could be. The prevailing theory is that they're some kind of extremely compact galaxy. But at only two percent of the diameter of the Milky Way, the distribution of st

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Star Tries to Swallow a Black Hole, Ignites One of the Strangest Supernovas Ever Seen

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-23 03:25:44

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed reveals the tragic story of a star that tried to defy the powerful pull of a nearby black hole but later conceded in an explosive death. A team of astronomers discovered the unusual supernova, dubbed SN 2023zkd, while digging through observations of particularly interesting targets gathered by tele

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This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-24 11:47:40

Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion times that of the sun, it is about 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This would make it among the most massive objects ever detected. The finding, published in the Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, was made by researchers from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in the UK in collaboration with

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Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 02:58:44

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy behind it into a near-perfect circle called an Einstein ring, effectively reducing a realm with trillions of stars of its own into an astrophysical fashion accessory. It's 10,000 times as heavy as our Milky Way's own central black hole, and is nigh unto breaking the universe's theoretical upper limi

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Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 15:06:03

Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it’s useful for you, too. Overall this cost us about $40k, including the cost for closing up the PTAC holes. We’ll probably never make the money back on electricity cost savings, so the main benefits are that we have more quiet and more stable temperatures now and overall I’m glad that we did it. (I’ll use th

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Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-30 22:45:21

The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near the upper limit predicted by our cosmological models, leaving astronomers with burning questions surrounding the relationship between black holes and their galaxy hosts. In a paper published August 7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers announced the discovery of a black hole inside a supermassive galaxy 5 billion light-years from Earth, dubbed the Cosmic Horseshoe. The newl

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Astronomers Discover the Earliest Black Hole Ever Confirmed

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-12-04 03:06:09

An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery could offer new clues to a mysterious class of ancient galaxies that confounded prevailing theories of cosmology. In a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the researchers describe CAPERS-LRD-z9—a distant, gas-enshrouded galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. It dates back some 13.

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Daring New Plan Lays Out Mission to a Black Hole

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-04 08:10:07

Fifty-six years after Disney filmmakers imagined what it would be like for a spacecraft crew to journey to a black hole in the 1979 movie The Black Hole, an astrophysicist has released a plan for a real interstellar mission to go where no spacecraft has gone before. Outlined in a new paper published today in iScience, the proposal is a two-pronged, surprisingly simple approach. First, scientists need to find a black hole that’s relatively nearby. Second, they need to build something called a na

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Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-14 22:13:01

Pi-hole, a popular network-level ad-blocker, has disclosed that donor names and email addresses were exposed through a security vulnerability in the GiveWP WordPress donation plugin. Pi-hole acts as a DNS sinkhole, filtering out unwanted content before it reaches the users' devices. While initially designed to run on Raspberry Pi single-board computers, it now supports various Linux systems on dedicated hardware or virtual machines. The organization stated that they first learned of the incide

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Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-12 20:41:56

Toward the beginning of the pandemic, a friend asked me how she could use an external vocal mic and a guitar with a pickup on Zoom calls. Sounds easy, right? But to have the amount of control a musician really wants, it turned out to be a bit more involved. Plus, when working from home for a microphone company, it’s pretty common to use a decent mic in meetings. This post explains the setup I’ve been using for my calls. (Don’t let the speakers fool you. Use headphones or it’ll feed back when

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Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

news.ycombinator.com Paula Span 2025-12-26 17:45:07

A long list of Lynda Hollander’s paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause, she said, “I didn’t want to take a chance.” A cardiologist told Ms. Hollander that based on factors like age, sex, cholesterol and blood pressure, she faced a moderate risk of a major cardiac event, like a heart attack, within the next 10 years. Doctors typically counsel such patients about the

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Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed

wired.com Jorge Garay 2026-01-07 02:00:00

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the disks resembles the number eight lying down, similar to the infinity symbol (∞). Because of this resemblance, the researchers—who are based at the universities of Yale and Copenhagen—have nicknamed it the “Infinity Galaxy” and have detailed their discovery in a paper published in the Astrophysical J

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Bizarre "Infinity Galaxy" Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-09 06:45:01

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two galaxies, it could harbor the secrets to how the heaviest black holes in the universe, the supermassive black holes found at the hearts of galaxies, are born and reach their unbelievable masses — masses extreme enough to organize trillions of stars around them. "Everything is unusual about this ga

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Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-19 03:39:00

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they dubbed the Infinity Galaxy. It appears to support a leading theory on how some supermassive black holes form. Although "Infinity Galaxy" sounds like a place Thanos would hang out, it merely describes its appearance. Two compact, red nuclei, each surrounded by a ring, give the cluster the shape of an infinity symbol. What's inside is more interesting. (After all, this is a

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LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 06:06:51

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our Sun. The signal, designated GW231123, was detected during the fourth observing run of the LVK network on November 23, 2023. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, made history i

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Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Black Hole

Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Blackhole

Scientists Detect Strange Signal in Gravitational Waves

Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging

A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos

Scientists Say They Can't Explain the Signal They Just Detected From Beyond Our Galaxy

New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem

Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could ‘Rewrite the History of the Universe’

LIGO’s Sharpest Detection Yet Confirms Famous Stephen Hawking Theory

Scientists Discover Black Hole Created Less Than One Second After the Big Bang

Rupert's Property

Scientists Say Black Holes Could Form Inside Planets, Leading to Absolute Catastrophe

Astrophysicists find no 'hair' on black holes

A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town diversify its economy

This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

Star Tries to Swallow a Black Hole, Ignites One of the Strangest Supernovas Ever Seen

This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment

Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible

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Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw

Telephone colophon: Or, how I overengineered my call audio (2020)

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed

Bizarre "Infinity Galaxy" Could Hold the Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation

LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date

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