Where does black fall on the color spectrum? A color scientist explains
Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...
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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
A supermassive black hole surrounded by a torus of gas and dust is depicted in four different wavelengths of light ...
How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
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Astronomers investigate black hole jets with Event Horizon Telescope
The galaxy, NGC 1052, resides roughly 60 million light ... 1052's black hole region emits bright radio waves at a one-millimeter wavelength. This wavelength region on the electromagnetic spectrum ...
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Digital Paint Mixing Has Been Greatly Improved With 1930s Math
You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As ...
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First-ever detection of a mid-infrared flare in Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive massive black hole
Scientists have been actively observing Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)—a supermassive black ... but shorter wavelengths than radio light. Mid-IR sits in the middle of the infrared spectrum, and allows ...
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Scientists detect mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...
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Astronomers observe real-time formation of black hole jets for the first time
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light ... spectrum, could be due to a "tidal disruption event," where a large object like a star or cloud of gas gets too close to an inactive black hole ...