Black holes continue to grip our imagination. These cosmic powerhouses twist space and time so intensely that even light ...

Like a real lens, this also magnifies the background galaxy ... matter pulled in close to the black hole heats up and releases energy in the form of light, X-rays, and other radiation." ...

Typically,stellar-mass black holes are discovered when they interact with nearby stars—pulling in material, emitting X-rays ... of a background star, temporarily magnifying its light and ...

Gravity essentially warps and amplifies the light of distant galaxies in the background ... gas releasing X-rays within UHZ1, the telltale sign of a supermassive black hole growing in size.

In 2018, it was revealed that a pioneering telescope the size of Earth had taken, for the first time, an image of a black ...

They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of light ... of a percentage of the background radiation experienced everywhere ...

where matter pulled in close to the black hole heats up and releases energy in the form of light, X-rays, and other radiation," Nightingale said. "However, gravitational lensing makes it possible ...

some light rays might follow a direct route while others could loop around the black hole once -- or multiple times -- before reaching us. This means that light from the same source can arrive at ...

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"These observations can shed light on some of the main questions of astrophysics that are still unsolved. What really sets black holes apart ... the origin of cosmic rays (very high-energy ...