The lander, called Blue Ghost, will be used to deliver several NASA payloads to the moon, including a radio observation mission which is placed on the far side of the moon to minimize the radio noise coming from Earth. This week, NASA announced it has selected the company Firefly Aerospace to develop a commercial lander for the far side of the moon. These include partnerships with a number of private companies as well as NASA-developed projects, such as under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program which will contract out the transportation of small payloads to the moon. From sending the first crewed mission to land on its surface in 50 years to setting up a space station in orbit, the agency has multiple missions planned for exploring our planet's satellite. Hubble sees the changing seasons on Jupiter and UranusĪstronomers increasingly troubled by satellite constellationsĪ sparkling field of stars cluster together in Hubble image Scientists observe the aftermath of a spacecraft crashing into asteroid There’s a cosmic jellyfish in this week’s Hubble image So keep your eyes on black hole news this week, as there could be a picture of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, on the way.

According to the European Southern Observatory, the EHT team will present “groundbreaking” results regarding a finding in the Milky Way this week, May 12. Now, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team is gearing up for another big announcement. They imaged an absolutely enormous black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87, located 55 million light-years away. They were able to use radio telescopes from all over the world to work together to capture signals from the very edge of an event horizon, the boundary around the black hole from which nothing can escape. But the Event Horizon Telescope project made history in 2019 when it captured the first-ever image of a black hole. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)įor a long time, it was thought that black holes were impossible to image because of their light-devouring properties. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. Radio:NRF/SARAO/MeerKATĪnd a visible light image taken by Hubble showing the huge jets of energy given off by the supermassive black hole in a galaxy called Hercules A: Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A as imaged by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the Karl G. This new composite image shows Chandra data (green and blue) combined with radio data (red) from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight CenterĪ composite image showing our galaxy’s bustling center, where objects dance around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way: The central region of our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an exotic collection of objects, including a supermassive black hole weighing about 4 million times the mass of the Sun, clouds of gas at temperatures of millions of degrees, neutron stars, and white dwarf stars tearing material from companion stars, and beautiful tendrils of radio emission. Above the disk is a region of superhot subatomic particles called the corona. SpaceX shares stunning ‘blue marble’ footage of EarthĪ black hole pulls material off a neighboring star and into an accretion disk in this illustration of a black hole named MAXI J1820+070. James Webb spots exoplanet with gritty clouds of sand floating in its atmosphere

We now know what caused comet ‘Oumuamua’s strange orbit Sahu says that if this solar mass black hole is 7.1 times the mass of our Sun, its event horizon (or its outer boundary) would be about 26 miles in diameter. O-type stars, which are still burning hydrogen on what is known as the main sequence range up to 90 times the mass of our Sun and can be a million times as luminous as our own star. Theoretical models suggest that the mass of the progenitor of such a black hole is 20 to 25 solar masses, which means the progenitor must be an O-type star, Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and the lead author of The Astrophysical Journal paper, told me. Because the self-detonation is not perfectly symmetrical, the black hole may get a kick, and go careening through our galaxy like a blasted cannonball, NASA notes. The resulting remnant stellar core is crushed by gravity into a black hole, says NASA. The most likely scenario is that giant stars, at least 20 times the mass of the Sun, explode as supernovae. How do such black holes end up as solo objects?

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