They don't live very long on average just a few weeks in the summer time. But in that time they'll fly four or maybe five hundred miles in total. and here's the best part. They are the only insect to provide us with food in the form of liquid gold, h...
This summer, I set out to get to the bottom of a story thats captured the headlines. And this one, Ive got some experience myself, because Im also a beekeeper. There, is that good? Yeah, its perfect. Ok, I hate squeezing like that. I met some scienti...
If you look at the Milky Way galaxy, its this interesting balancepoint that this place where its just enough to wash from the black whole tokeep things interesting to possibly make the environment that allows us toexist here. Astronomers are eagerly...
To walkhere on Earth, to be alive, it thanks to a long chain of cause and effect writtendeep into the structure of the universe. A primordial process so long, and soancient that on the scale of a human life it seems almost incomprehensible. One of th...
Galaxies could in a way, be much bigger than they currently are. Something is stopping them growing larger and that something is the black hole at the center. Now this is bizarre because the ration of the size of the black hole to the size of the gal...
The X-ray image revealed how the black hole at the heart of the galaxy was firing unimaginable amounts of radiation into surrounding space and with extraordinary consequences. We could see what was going on at the centre and we could start to underst...
There was now a pressing challenge to understand how black holes in their surrounding galaxies. To be so intertwined.，professor Andy Fabian in the Cambridge University is one astronomer who began to look. Like the ripples, they travel out from his...
Was there any connection between the two? What Magorian discovered was completed unexpected. The relationship that we find was essentially that the bigger the galaxy, the bigger the black hole. That's in its broad terms. If you want to be a bit more...
Far from being violentaions and destruction, it seems instead , black holes might actually be benign architects ,whichve played a part in the creation of the galaxies,stars,and even the life itself. One of the first scientists to begin to see black h...
The super bright quasar phase having ended many billions of years ago, when the fuel that fires violent emissions was completely consumed. But now, with the approaching gas cloud and a prospect of feeding, the black hole should get brighter. Exactly...
We now know this light is produced by the rotating disk of matter, spinning round the edge of the black hole at the heart of the Cygnus A galaxy, waiting to be devoured. It means that against all popular expectations, the brightest sources of light i...
Here then is the strange paradox of black holes: the defeating black hole is anything but black. Just how greedy and bright a black hole can get is revealed by an aptly very ordinary looking galaxy called Cygnus A, some 650 million light years away....
The difference is that when you have a lot of gas, a lot of stuff orbiting around the black hole, there is a little bit of friction that causes matter to slowly spiral in towards the black hole. As gas continues to spiral in towards the Event Horizon...
To stare into the void of a black hole, to tumble through space before disappearing forever within it, it's the prospect of catching that unique moment that explains the excitement of this year's events. What happens to matter once it's been swallowe...
It's clear that it will come very close to the black hole, might even hit the black hole. So maybe we actually are feeding the black hole here. Now exactly how much and how fast of all these is completely unknown and that's the excitement about it be...
