Scientists observed a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 releasing wind at 20% of the speed of light after a sudden X-ray flare. New data from XRISM and XMM-Newton explains how magnetic activi ...

X-ray telescopes catch a black hole firing ultra-fast winds at 60,000 km/s, revealing how flares trigger extreme cosmic ...

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A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

Ten billion times more powerful than the Sun’s most violent eruptions.” That is the scale of the outflow astronomers have just witnessed from the supermassive black hole at the heart of NGC 3783. In a ...

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A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

While humans and classical computers must perform tensor operations step by step, light can do them all at once.

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...