Black 4.0 compared to a typical black acrylic art paint. Credit: Stuart Semple Beyond its greater light absorption, the paint has also seen a usability upgrade over Semple’s past releases.

But the rare cosmic event actually occurred 8.5 billion light years away from Earth, when the universe was just a third of its current age — and it has created more questions than answers.

Black Desert Online is launching the upcoming Land of the Morning Light expansion for the open-world action MMORPG game. The Land of the Morning Light expansion comes with unique terrain, a new ...

About 99 percent of all the mass released in a tidal disruption event is called nonrelativistic—it moves along at 10 percent the speed of light or less. The remaining 1 percent, however, is very ...

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The black hole in question, which has a mass around 1.4 billion times that of the sun, is located at the heart of a galaxy designated 1ES 1927+654. It's located about 270 million light-years away ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

It also contains an image of where the black hole is located and an image of a jet that M87 has produced. The audio files and visualizations were released during NASA's Black Hole Week from May 2 ...

It is impossible to create a black hole with light alone, calculations show 1. Black holes form when extremely dense matter collapses under gravity. Because energy and mass are equivalent ...

Journal Reference: Elad Steinberg, Nicholas C. Stone. Stream–disk shocks as the origins of peak light in tidal disruption events. Nature, 2024; 625 (7995): 463 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06875-y ...

Dormant Black Hole Detected Just 160,000 Light Years From Earth Published Jul 20, 2022 at 4:27 PM EDT Updated Jul 20, 2022 at 4:43 PM EDT By Simona Kitanovska, Zenger News ...

Now, the particulars of how light around M87’s black hole is oriented could rule out the likelihood of axion particles in a specific mass range, researchers report March 17 in Nature Astronomy.