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Black Hole
A region in spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. They are formed from the remnants of massive stars.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, can escape from it, formed from the gravitational collapse of massive stars or existing as supermassive black holes at galactic centers.
BACKGROUND
Makenzie Lystrup is an American planetary scientist and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of SPIE. She was the 14th the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center. She has previously served as the vice president and general manager for civil space at Ball Aerospace.
READ MORE ON WIKIPEDIASYNONYMS & ALIASES
- Gravitational singularity
- cosmic vacuum
- singularity
USAGE NOTE
Black holes are crucial for understanding galaxy formation, the extreme physics of gravity, and the life cycles of massive stars.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Black Hole.
An international collaboration that produced the first-ever image of a black hole by creating a virtual Earth-sized telescope. They develop synchronization technology, imaging algorithms, and observation techniques to study the immediate environment of supermassive black holes.
A global group of research institutions and scientists operating the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors. They develop and use advanced laser interferometry to directly detect gravitational waves from cosmic events, such as the merger of binary black holes.
The U.S. space agency that develops and operates numerous space-based observatories used to study black holes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the James Webb Space Telescope. They also fund research and missions focused on high-energy astrophysics.
A multinational space agency that develops technology for and operates missions crucial to black hole research, such as the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. They are leading the development of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves in space.
A German research institute heavily involved in high-energy astrophysics and infrared astronomy. Their scientists led the effort to track stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, contributing to a Nobel Prize. They develop advanced instrumentation for ground and space-based telescopes.
A leading research university that co-manages the LIGO project for detecting gravitational waves from black hole mergers. It also operates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which develops spacecraft and instruments for missions that study astrophysical phenomena including black holes.
Japan's national space agency, which develops and operates X-ray astronomy satellites designed to observe high-energy phenomena. Missions like the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) are used to study the extreme physics of matter falling into black holes.