For the first time in history, an international team of astronomers managed to follow a black hole's outburst live in the distant galaxy IC 3599. The spectacular phenomenon reached a brightness 50 times higher than its usual state, providing unprecedented data on how matter behaves under extreme conditions, located an incredible 280 million light-years away from Earth.
An international team of scientists has identified the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the largest globular cluster in our galaxy. According to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, this historic discovery was made using over two decades of Hubble observations and recent James Webb data.
NASA has achieved an unprecedented image of the powerful jet of matter emerging from supermassive black hole M87*, the same cosmic giant that made history in 2019 as the first black hole ever photographed by humanity. This groundbreaking X-ray observation reveals new details about these mysterious phenomena that continue to challenge our understanding of the universe.
Un equipo internacional de astrónomos logró medir por primera vez un agujero negro inactivo a 10.000 millones de años luz gracias al telescopio James Webb y una lente gravitacional natural. El hallazgo supera por 15 veces el récord anterior de distancia y abre una ventana inédita al universo primitivo.
Un observatorio submarino en el Mediterráneo captó en 2023 una partícula fantasma con una energía de 220 PeV, 40.000 veces superior a los neutrinos solares. Científicos creen que proviene de blazares lejanos, galaxias con agujeros negros supermasivos capaces de lanzar chorros de energía casi a la velocidad de la luz hacia la Tierra.
Alfredo S. Quiroga
