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6 Jul 2022

The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator is up and running again in Switzerland after a three-year refurbishment. And it is off to a record-breaking start as scientists try to unlock the secrets surrounding the building blocks of the universe. Physicists hope it will reveal the secrets of “dark matter” that makes up 85 percent of our universe, but does not absorb, reflect or emit light.

8 Apr 2024

Physicists worldwide brimmed with anticipation as they witnessed the long-awaited activation of the most advanced high-energy particle collider at CERN. After patiently waiting for decades, they finally beheld this remarkable invention, poised to transform our comprehension of the universe. Join us as we delve into the mysterious events unfolding within the hallowed halls of CERN, where science and the unknown collide. What secrets lie hidden in the subatomic depths? Brian Cox unravels the enigma, revealing a tale that defies explanation.

13 Jan 2024

CERN Scientists Break Silence On Terrifying New Discovery That Changes Everything

CERN has made headlines yet again. The renowned laboratory for particle physics has announced a rather unprecedented discovery made by their Large Hadron Collider that may likely cause a shift in our understanding of the universe. Scientists have reported that these anomalous readings could signal the existence of extraterrestrial life in a parallel universe. In This video, we will be discussing the just-announced CERN discovery that changes everything.

In a recent experiment with the Large Hadron Collider, CERN scientists noticed something strange with a particular kind of quark. Quarks are the building blocks of all matter and are of different types. Physicists call the different types ‘flavours’.

Some of these so-called flavours of quarks were extremely unstable and decayed rapidly. The subject of this particular anomaly was the beauty quark, which has an average lifespan of one and a half trillionths of a second. It turned out that the quark’s decay pattern was radically different from what scientists predicted based on the standard model.

Based on their predictions, when a beauty quark decays, it should be influenced by the weak force and transform into what is called leptons, which is a set of lighter particles, either an electron or a muon, with the standard model predicting a 50-50 chance for both particles.

But what the data from the Large Hadron Collider was showing was relatively different. The data showed that these quarks decay into muons only seventy percent as often as they decayed into electrons.

6 Apr 2024

CERN is turning the Large Hadron Collider back on April 8th, the same day as a Total Solar Eclipse. Are the rumours regarding this event simply a conspiracy theory? The information in this video should help answer questions like: Is CERN trying to open a portal to the spiritual world or to hell? What is the large hadron collider? Should we be worried about the Higgs Boson (or god particle)? Let’s dive in and find out.

12 Aug 2020

Let’s roll back a few days. This is CERN, the Nuclear Research laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland. It features the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. What does it do? It accelerates and collides particles at 99.99% of the speed of light. And maybe, it could produce the very first lab-grown black hole. How big would that black hole be? What precautions would you need to take not to get sucked in it? And how long would it take it to destroy the entire planet?

the ophiuchus cluster is 390 million light-years from us and it is the biggest explosion ever discovered since the big bang | science, technology & astrophysics

a void as large as 10 billion times the sun’s energy !!!

390 million light years away from us there’s a cluster called Ophiuchus cluster. When astronomers were studying this cluster they found a massive void that was about 750,000 light years wide.

If we want to create a void that large we need 10 billion times of Sun’s energy. Further observations revealed that when lots of matter falls into a Black Hole that matter gets diverted into powerful jet which results into this kind of explosion.

Means this void was created by a powerful jet of particles five times bigger than any known explosion.

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the biggest explosion since the big bang

The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away. Astronomers made this record-breaking discovery using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton, and radio data from the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India.

The unrivaled outburst was detected in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is about 390 million light years from Earth. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity, containing thousands of individual galaxies, dark matter, and hot gas. In the center of the Ophiuchus cluster, there is a large galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole.

Researchers have traced the likely source of this gigantic eruption to this black hole. Although black holes are famous for pulling material toward them, they often expel prodigious amounts of material and energy. This happens when matter falling toward the black hole is redirected into jets, or beams, that blast outward into space and slam into any surrounding material.

Astronomers needed to combine the X-ray information along with the radio data in order to clinch this finding. They discovered that a cavity in the hot gas, first seen in Chandra data in 2016, was filled almost perfectly with radio emission created by electrons that had been accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

This allowed them to confirm that an explosion of unprecedented size took place in Ophiuchus. The amount of energy required to create the cavity in Ophiuchus is about five times greater than the previous record holder, MS 0735+74, and hundreds and thousands of times greater than typical clusters.

The black hole eruption must have finished because the researchers do not see any evidence for current jets in the radio data. This shutdown can be explained by the Chandra data, which show that the densest and coolest gas seen in X-rays is currently located at a different position from the central galaxy.

If this gas shifted away from the galaxy it will have deprived the black hole of fuel for its growth, turning off the jets. While much has been learned about the galaxy cluster Ophiuchus through X-ray and radio telescopes, more data will be needed to answer the many remaining questions this object poses.

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Are wormholes real or are they just magic disguised as physics and maths?

And if they are real how do they work and where can we find them?

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The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity, further demonstrating the power of this 100 year-old theory.

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Scientists have glimpsed the event horizon of a black hole for the very first time.

Key points:

• The world-first image shows the supermassive black hole at the centre of M87, a neighbouring galaxy to our own Milky Way
• The image is the result of a seven-year project linking telescopes all over the world to create ‘a dish the size of the planet’
• The fact the image matches so closely to predictions is a confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity

Until now, every image of a black hole you have ever seen has been an artist’s impression.

“We’ve been studying black holes so long that sometimes it’s easy to forget that none of us has actually seen one,” said France Cordova, director of the US National Science Foundation, at one of seven simultaneous press conferences where the scientists announced their findings to the world.

“This is a huge day in astrophysics. We’re seeing the unseeable.”

 

What exactly are we looking at?

The bright ring in the image is caused by the incredible pull the black hole exerts on nearby matter.

It’s surrounded by a swirling disc of gas, which gets superheated and emits bright radio waves as it accelerates towards the event horizon — getting very, very close to the speed of light.

“You can see that one side of that ring is brighter than the other, and that’s the side that’s coming towards us as the whole thing spins,” explained University of Queensland astrophysicist Professor Tamara Davis.

“That was also predicted by relativity — that if it was spinning, and most things do tend to spin, then it would have one side that was brighter than the other.”

Einstein’s theory of general relativity first predicted the existence of black holes, as well as mapping out how heavy such objects would warp the fabric of space-time and bend the path of light.

It’s those mind-bending ideas, Professor Davis said, that probably explain why we can see the orange ring in all its glory.

Although the blazing, spinning disc of material passes behind the black hole, from our perspective, the light actually curves right around the black hole — so that telescopes on Earth can still catch it.

“It gets emitted and bent, forming the visible ring that we can see, with the black hole in silhouette and the ring around it.”

A telescope the size of a planet

The EHT initiative kicked off seven years ago with the aim of directly observing the immediate environment of a black hole.

One of the telescopes in the network is the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope on top of Mauna Kea peak in Hawaii, where Australian Jessica Dempsey is deputy director.

“We’ve made a dish the size of the planet,” she told ABC’s Catalyst earlier this year.

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Astronomers have revealed the first ever close-up photo of a black hole during a ground-breaking global event.

Eight radio telescopes around the world have been pointed at two of the cosmic behemoths, one at the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and another nearly 54 million light years away.

Now, after two years of acquiring and processing the data, the international team of scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) programme have presented their first results.

Media gathered for press conferences in Brussels, Washington, Santiago, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo and Lyngby in Denmark from 2pm.

What is a black hole?

The project has targeted two supermassive black holes residing at the centre of different galaxies.

Black holes are regions where matter has been crushed by gravity to an infinitely small space where the normal laws of physics no longer apply.

They are phenomenally dense and have gravitational fields so powerful no matter or light can escape, making them extraordinarily difficult to observe despite their great mass.

While nothing can escape the gravitational vortex of a black hole, gas and radiation rage in a swirling eddy around the brink of the abyss.

It is this point-of-no-return precipice called the event horizon – beyond which stars, planets, gas, dust and all forms of electromagnetic radiation get swallowed into oblivion – that astronomers have tried to observe for the first time.

Einstein and Sagittarius A

One of the black holes, Sagittarius A (SgrA), is the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, some 26,000 light years away and possessing four million times the mass of our sun.

Images of SgrA are likely to show a lopsided ring of brightness due to gravity bending light closer to the black hole more strongly than light further away.

The project may help scientists struggling to marry together two apparently incompatible pillars of physics, Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

The first relates to laws of nature on cosmic scales, while the second governs the weird world of subatomic particles where it is possible to be in two places at once.

Physicist and black hole expert Lia Medeiros, from the University of Arizona, US, told ScienceNews magazine: “If general relativity buckles at a black hole’s boundary, it may point the way forward for theorists.”

M87

The EHT’s other target, M87, is notable for shooting out a humongous jet of charged subatomic particles that streams away for some 5,000 light years.

The black hole inhabits the centre of the neighbouring Virgo A galaxy, 54 million light years from Earth, and boasts a mass 3.5 billion times that of the sun.

The new observations are expected to provide clues about M87’s magnetic field, which may be linked to the jet mechanism.

photo of a black hole 54 million light-years away !

 

First ever black hole image released

By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, BBC News

• 10 April 2019

Image copyrightEHTImage captionThe first ever picture of a black hole: It’s surrounded by a halo of bright gas

Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.

It measures 40 billion km across – three million times the size of the Earth – and has been described by scientists as “a monster”.

The black hole is 500 million trillion km away and was photographed by a network of eight telescopes across the world.

Details have been published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight linked telescopes.

Prof Heino Falcke, of Radboud University in the Netherlands, who proposed the experiment, told BBC News that the black hole was found in a galaxy called M87.

“What we see is larger than the size of our entire Solar System,” he said.

“It has a mass 6.5 billion times that of the Sun. And it is one of the heaviest black holes that we think exists. It is an absolute monster, the heavyweight champion of black holes in the Universe.”

Prof Heino Falcke: “We still have to understand how the light is generated”

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Media captionProf Heino Falcke: “We still have to understand how the light is generated”

The image shows an intensely bright “ring of fire”, as Prof Falcke describes it, surrounding a perfectly circular dark hole. The bright halo is caused by superheated gas falling into the hole. The light is brighter than all the billions of other stars in the galaxy combined – which is why it can be seen at such distance from Earth.

The edge of the dark circle at the centre is the point at which the gas enters the black hole, which is an object that has such a large gravitational pull, not even light can escape.

Image copyrightDR JEAN LORRE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImage captionAstronomers have suspected that the M87 galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart from false colour images such as this one. The dark centre is not a black hole but indicates that stars are densely packed and fast moving

The image matches what theoretical physicists and indeed, Hollywood directors, imagined black holes would look like, according to Dr Ziri Younsi, of University College London – who is part of the EHT collaboration.

“Although they are relatively simple objects, black holes raise some of the most complex questions about the nature of space and time, and ultimately of our existence,” he said.

“It is remarkable that the image we observe is so similar to that which we obtain from our theoretical calculations. So far, it looks like Einstein is correct once again.”

But having the first image will enable researchers to learn more about these mysterious objects. They will be keen to look out for ways in which the black hole departs from what’s expected in physics. No-one really knows how the bright ring around the hole is created. Even more intriguing is the question of what happens when an object falls into a black hole.

What is a black hole?

• A black hole is a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape

• Despite the name, they are not empty but instead consist of a huge amount of matter packed densely into a small area, giving it an immense gravitational pull

• There is a region of space beyond the black hole called the event horizon. This is a “point of no return”, beyond which it is impossible to escape the gravitational effects of the black hole

Prof Falcke had the idea for the project when he was a PhD student in 1993. At the time, no-one thought it was possible. But he was the first to realise that a certain type of radio emission would be generated close to and all around the black hole, which would be powerful enough to be detected by telescopes on Earth.

He also recalled reading a scientific paper from 1973 that suggested that because of their enormous gravity, black holes appear 2.5 times larger than they actually are.

These two factors suddenly made the seemingly impossible, possible. After arguing his case for 20 years, Prof Falcke persuaded the European Research Council to fund the project. The National Science Foundation and agencies in East Asia then joined in to bankroll the project to the tune of more than £40m.

Image captionThe eventual EHT array will have 12 widely spaced participating radio facilities

It is an investment that has been vindicated with the publication of the image. Prof Falcke told me that he felt that “it’s mission accomplished”.

He said: “It has been a long journey, but this is what I wanted to see with my own eyes. I wanted to know is this real?”

No single telescope is powerful enough to image the black hole. So, in the biggest experiment of its kind, Prof Sheperd Doeleman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics led a project to set up a network of eight linked telescopes. Together, they form the Event Horizon Telescope and can be thought of as a planet-sized array of dishes.

Image copyrightKATIE BOUMANImage captionThe data was stored on hundreds of hard drives which were flown to a central processing centre. There was too much of it to be sent over the internet

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Each is located high up at a variety of exotic sites, including on volcanoes in Hawaii and Mexico, mountains in Arizona and the Spanish Sierra Nevada, in the Atacama Desert of Chile, and in Antarctica.

A team of 200 scientists pointed the networked telescopes towards M87 and scanned its heart over a period of 10 days.

The information they gathered was too much to be sent across the internet. Instead, the data was stored on hundreds of hard drives that were flown to a central processing centres in Boston, US, and Bonn, Germany, to assemble the information. Prof Doeleman described the achievement as “an extraordinary scientific feat”.

“We have achieved something presumed to be impossible just a generation ago,” he said.

“Breakthroughs in technology, connections between the world’s best radio observatories, and innovative algorithms all came together to open an entirely new window on black holes.”

The team is also imaging the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Odd though it may sound, that is harder than getting an image from a distant galaxy 55 million light-years away. This is because, for some unknown reason, the “ring of fire” around the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is smaller and dimmer.

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How to see a Black Hole: The Universe’s Greatest Mystery can be seen the UK at 21:00 on BBC Four on Wednesday 10 April.

 

 

Neutron Stars escaping a black hole, look !

NASA | Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black Hole

Published on May 13, 2014

This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events in the universe: a pair of neutron stars colliding, merging and forming a black hole. A neutron star is the compressed core left behind when a star born with between eight and 30 times the sun’s mass explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars pack about 1.5 times the mass of the sun — equivalent to about half a million Earths — into a ball just 12 miles (20 km) across.

As the simulation begins, we view an unequally matched pair of neutron stars weighing 1.4 and 1.7 solar masses. They are separated by only about 11 miles, slightly less distance than their own diameters. Redder colors show regions of progressively lower density.

As the stars spiral toward each other, intense tides begin to deform them, possibly cracking their crusts. Neutron stars possess incredible density, but their surfaces are comparatively thin, with densities about a million times greater than gold. Their interiors crush matter to a much greater degree densities rise by 100 million times in their centers. To begin to imagine such mind-boggling densities, consider that a cubic centimeter of neutron star matter outweighs Mount Everest.

By 7 milliseconds, tidal forces overwhelm and shatter the lesser star. Its superdense contents erupt into the system and curl a spiral arm of incredibly hot material. At 13 milliseconds, the more massive star has accumulated too much mass to support it against gravity and collapses, and a new black hole is born. The black hole’s event horizon — its point of no return — is shown by the gray sphere. While most of the matter from both neutron stars will fall into the black hole, some of the less dense, faster moving matter manages to orbit around it, quickly forming a large and rapidly rotating torus. This torus extends for about 124 miles (200 km) and contains the equivalent of 1/5th the mass of our sun. The entire simulation covers only 20 milliseconds.

Scientists think neutron star mergers like this produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Short GRBs last less than two seconds yet unleash as much energy as all the stars in our galaxy produce over one year.

The rapidly fading afterglow of these explosions presents a challenge to astronomers. A key element in understanding GRBs is getting instruments on large ground-based telescopes to capture afterglows as soon as possible after the burst. The rapid notification and accurate positions provided by NASA’s Swift mission creates a vibrant synergy with ground-based observatories that has led to dramatically improved understanding of GRBs, especially for short bursts.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on “Interstellar”

For astrophysicists, “Interstellar” is probably like being a kid in a candy store. But how realistic is it? The one and only Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the realism of “Interstellar” and how the Matthew McConaghey-led space epic stacks up to some of his favorite science fiction flicks.