Black Holes

Sharper Black Hole Images Could Put Einstein’s Gravity to the Test: New Study Maps What Future Telescopes Must See (7 Nov 2025)

Brighter Than 10 Trillion Suns: Record Black Hole Flare 10 Billion Light‑Years Away

Date: November 7, 2025 Key points What happened—and why this one is different A Caltech‑led team reports an extraordinary flare from the supermassive black hole in AGN J2245+3743, first seen rising dramatically in 2018 and now recognized as a record‑setter for both luminosity and distance. At peak, it shone with the light of ~10 trillion suns, unmistakably towering above the AGN’s usual variability. California Institute of Technology+1 The peer‑reviewed study, published November 4, 2025 in Nature Astronomy, quantifies just how extreme the event is: the source brightened by more than a factor of 40, radiating a cumulative ~10⁵⁴ ergs—on par

8 November 2025

Sharper Black Hole Images Could Put Einstein’s Gravity to the Test: New Study Maps What Future Telescopes Must See (7 Nov 2025)

Published: November 7, 2025 What happened today A wave of coverage on Friday highlighted a new Nature Astronomy study that sets a concrete target for the next generation of black hole images: if upcoming telescopes can reach percent‑level fidelity, they could tell Einstein’s black holes apart from a range of look‑alikes predicted by alternative theories of gravity. The paper—published November 5—uses advanced simulations to show that when the mismatch between images exceeds roughly 2–5%, future instruments should be able to rule out many non‑Einstein models. Nature Today’s recaps emphasize what this means in practice: sharper “shadow” images—the dark silhouette encircled

8 November 2025

Astronomy · Black Holes · Einstein’s Theory · Scientific Research · Space Exploration

Record-Setting Black Hole Flash Dazzles Astronomers: “One-In-A-Million” Flare Blasts Light = 10 Trillion Suns

An Unprecedented Cosmic Flare On Nov. 4, 2025 astronomers worldwide were abuzz: a supermassive black hole had produced the most luminous flare ever recorded. At its peak the outburst was “30 times brighter than any prior black hole flare,” equivalent to 10 trillion Suns space.com. This “superflare” came from a galaxy over 11 billion light-years away – meaning we see it as it happened more than 10 billion years ago reuters.com space.com. In cosmic terms this was a spectacular event: “a one-in-a-million object” as Caltech’s Matthew Graham describes theriver973.iheart.com. Nature News confirms it as “the biggest black-hole outburst ever seen,” a

5 November 2025

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Black Hole Feasts, AI for Teens & Climate Alarms: Science News Roundup (Sept 18–19, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Record-Breaking Black Hole Growth Astronomers have identified a “black hole on overdrive” in the early universe, feeding faster than theory predicted. The supermassive black hole — about a billion solar masses and observed 12.8 billion light-years away — is devouring matter at 2.4 times the Eddington limit (the usual maximum rate) nasa.gov nasa.gov. This quasar’s extreme X-ray output makes it the brightest black hole of the universe’s first billion years nasa.gov. Its existence helps explain how giant black holes grew so quickly after the Big Bang. The lead researcher, Luca Ighina of the Center for Astrophysics, was

19 September 2025

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Black Holes, ‘Gamechanger’ Drug & Climate Paradox – Science Breakthroughs (Aug 31–Sep 1, 2025)

Key Facts Space & Astronomy Webb Spots Earliest Known Black Hole Astronomers pushed cosmic limits by identifying the most distant black hole ever confirmed – in a tiny galaxy dubbed CAPERS-LRD-z9, only ~500 million years after the Big Bang sciencedaily.com. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected telltale spectroscopic signatures of fast-moving gas in this 13.3-billion-year-old galaxy, confirming a supermassive black hole ~300 million times the Sun’s mass at its core sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. “This adds to growing evidence that early black holes grew much faster than we thought possible, or they started out far more massive than our models predict,”

1 September 2025

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Black Holes, Breakthrough Cures & Robot Olympics – Science Highlights (Aug 17–18, 2025)

On Aug 6, 2025, astronomers announced the discovery of the most distant black hole in galaxy CAPERS-LRD-z9, formed about 500 million years after the Big Bang, whose light has travelled 13.3 billion years to reach Earth and is estimated to have a mass up to 300 million solar masses. On Aug 15, 2025, NASA/ISRO’s NISAR mission deployed its 12-meter mesh radar reflector in orbit, the largest reflector NASA has ever placed in space, with science operations planned for late fall 2025. On Aug 16, 2025, researchers confirmed astatine-188 (85 protons, 103 neutrons) as the heaviest known proton-emitting isotope, produced by

18 August 2025

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Black Holes, Brain Breakthroughs & Robot Olympics – Top Science News (Aug 16–17, 2025)

The distant black hole CAPERS-LRD-z9 was confirmed in a galaxy about 500 million years after the Big Bang, with light travel of 13.3 billion years and an estimated mass up to 300 million solar masses. NASA/ISRO’s NISAR satellite unfurled its 12-meter mesh radar antenna reflector in orbit on Aug 15, 2025, in about 37 minutes, the largest radar dish NASA has launched. Astatine-188, the heaviest known proton-emitting isotope with 85 protons and 103 neutrons, was discovered by Finnish researchers, produced by smashing Strontium-84 into a silver target, and described as strongly deformed or “watermelon-shaped.” Cyclo[48]carbon, a ring of 48 carbon

17 August 2025

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