At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/12/50-year-assumption-black-holes-been-broken/ … here we are told that a 50 year assumption concerning black holes has been broken. Something fundamental to black holes is about to change – once again. Cosmic engines power ultraviolet light and X-ray emissions. Quasars were first identified in the 1960s. Quasars emit staggering amounts of energy. As matter spirals into a black hole it forms a hot luminous accretion disk that can, sometimes, outshine entire galaxies. A blinding bright burst of light. Infalling matter is heated to millions of degrees, it is believed. From this glowing accretion disk emerges ultraviolet radiation which interacts with the corona of the disk, thought to be surrounded by a ring of high energy particles which emit X-rays. This process of UV to X-rays has been remarkably consistent across observations and forms the backbone of cosmological models, we are told. However, cosmologists are now a little bothered as it seems it may not be as certain – even though it was used as a tool to map the universe. Data from eROSITA and the XMM-Newton observatories was used to look at a large population of quasars across cosmic time. Some of them displayed a noticeably different relationship between their UV and X-ray outputs.
Wal Thornhill, on pages 24/25 of his book, The Electric Universe, co-authored with David Talbot, notes that the Big Bang Theory led to a number of suprises. Not least of which was they found galactic cores exhibited far more concentrated energetic activity than could be achieved by normal objects operating gravitationally. To circumvent the problem they effectively ‘divided by zero’ by using the new zero force gravity to process the object responsible for the outbursts. The theoretical result was not surpringly, a virtually infinite concentration of mass that became known as a black hole. These were, and are, so beloved by schoolboys as well as by cosmologists. Black holes, the theorists said, produce the detected energies by consuming everything around them. Munching on matter in a frenzy of activity. Arthur Eddington, who produced the gravitational model of stars, was not impressed. Neither was Fred Hoyle. He was famously antagonistic to the Big Bang idea. As time progressed, the black hole theory led to more and more contradictions, as outlined in various posts on In the News. New telescopes quickly recorded material erupting explosively from galactic cores – populated, it was thought by black holes. All this seemed to contradict the spirit of black hole theory – ‘nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole.’ Theorists then decided there was an accretion disk around black holes – even a magnetic field of some description, but apparently divorced from electric currents. In other words, in spite of shoring up the theoretical model of the universe, new telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple telescope arrays, are simply showing up more and more problems inherent to black hole theory.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/12/black-hole-trillions-earth-oceans-worth-water-discovered/ … in deep space researchers have detected huge amounts of water – or the components of water. A quasar is involved, formed by a black hole. A colossal cloud of water vapour surrounds the quasar.
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/12/astronomers-find-interstellar-tunnel-linking-star-systems/ .. . which appears to read a bit like science fiction. A mysterious structure of hot plasma extends from a local hot bubble surrounding our Sun which links our solar system to more distant regions of our galaxy. A bit closer to home but illustrating how little we really know about the formation of our solar system, yet alone the universe at large.