At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-xrism-reveals-sluggish-neutron-star.html … the X-Ray Imaging Specroscopy Mission [XRISM] has revealed there is an unexpected difference between the powerful wind launched around a neutron star and those from what are thought to be black holes. The surprisingly dense wind blowing from the stellar system challenges our understanding of how such winds form and drive changes in their surroundings. We are told that X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter above the neutron star’s surface. This, then, powers outflow that influences and transforms the cosmic environment. Or that is the mainstream view of what is happening. However, the authors also note that how these outflows are produced remains unknown. What they are referring to is the so called ‘cosmic wind’ and it appears to be the equivalent, in deep space, of our solar system’s ‘solar wind.’
Cosmic wind also comes from black holes in the centre of galaxies. In fact, XRISM was set up, or one of the reasons it was set up, to find out more about the hot plasma wind that blows through galaxies throughout the universe. What they found, basically, is cosmic wind driving out of black holes is more energetic than cosmic wind from a neutron star.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-images-reveal-unexpected-polarization-flips.html … the Event Horizon Telescope [EHT] has unveiled new images of a black hole in a faraway galaxy. It shows a dynamic environment with changing polorisation patterns close to the black hole itself. Was Deepak Chahal right? What happens in our solar system is replicated elsewhere in the universe. The eleven year solar cycle embraces, at midpoint, during the highest phase of solar activity in the cycle, a change in polarisation on the Sun. Is this black hole the equivalent of a galaxy sized event due to a similar cycle – but at a greater magnitude and of a greater length of time.
Black holes are one of the more common subjects aired in the Astronomy section of PhysOrg. Even as I write this a couple of new ones popped up today. One can get an idea of the scale of the research by the following links – from earlier in the month.
At the moment cosmologists are still interpreting in terms of their mainstream mantra – and open revolt is absent. At what point will accumulating evidence from astronomical observation lead to a collapse of the cosmological consensus?
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mysterious-red-dots-early-universe.html … mysterious red dots seen by the James Webb Telescope may reepresent an entirely new class of celestial object – a black hole swallowing massive amounts of matter and spitting out energetic light phenomena. The objects were originally thought to be galaxies as mature as our own Milky Way – calling into question the mainstream narrative. The new idea is that the small pinpoints of light may be great spheres of hot gas that are so dense they look like ordinary stars. In this instance, powered by a supermassive black hole. We are told this is an ‘elegant’ explanation. Others may think it is a bit of desperation in order to keep the mainstream narrative alive.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-unprecedented-gamma-ray-hints-rare.html … here we have another red dot like feature. This time it is described as a massive explosion – that repeated several times over in the course of a single day’s observation of that patch of the sky. Gamma ray bursts are often associated with supernova events and are supposed to explode on only one occasion. Not on multiple occasions. They are said to destroy the star itself in the process. Clearly, this one did not want to die. Are the big new telescopes and arrays causing problems for mainstream, and their comfy view of the dynamics of the universe? Gamma ray bursts are supposed to last seconds, or minutes. This one prevailed all day.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-black-hole-einstein-hawking.html … here we are told a ringing black hole confirms Einstein and Hawking and their predictions. Settle down, the mainstream is still on song. The assumption, from the outset, is that black holes exist and gravitational waves arise from black hole collisions.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-hawking-kerr-black-hole-theories.html … in this one it is the theories of Hawking and Kerr that are confirmed.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-black-hole-reveal-foundations-universe.html … mainstream are convinced that black holes explode at the end of their lives – and these occur roughly every 100,000 years, on average. Big telescopes have reopened this paradigm. They are now happening at least once in every 10 years, we are told.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-astronomers-black-hole-nearby-dwarf.html … Chinese researchers have discovered a wandering black hole associated with a dwarf galaxy. It is not located at the galactic heart – and is launching radio jets.
At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-webb-immense-stellar-jet-outskirts.html … the James Web telescope observes what is described as an immense stellar jet on the outskirts of our Milky Way. It is described as a blowtorch of seething gases = plasma. The length of the energetic jet stretches across 8 light years – erupting at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. Sounds like an enormous burst of solar wind – which is composed of plasma. But at an enormous projection. The jet has a clear filamentary structure. This one is not a black hole – but an accreting neutron star, we are informed.