Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier is in discussions to helm Marvel’s X-Men film.
X-Men '97
Although the X-Men have not had their own film since Dark Phoenix in 2019, Marvel Studios has allegedly chosen a director to bring the mutant heroes back to theaters.
The Hollywood Reporter states that Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier is currently in negotiations with Marvel to helm the X-Men reboot film. Screenwriter Michael Lesslie, known for Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is writing the script, which is expected to represent a fresh start separate from the X-Men films produced by 20th Century Fox. Since its release on May 2, Thunderbolts has received positive critical reviews and good audience feedback, which likely has Marvel pleased with the results, prompting the studio to expedite Schreier's appointment for such a significant follow-up film.
The first X-Men movie debuted in 2000 and became an unanticipated success, launching Hugh Jackman’s career and helping to kick off the superhero film era. Following Disney's acquisition of Fox’s entertainment assets in 2019, the rights to all X-Men-related characters returned to Marvel Studios, reassembling nearly all Marvel rights under one umbrella, with the exception of Spider-Man characters, which remain with Sony.
Last year's Deadpool & Wolverine was the first live-action Marvel Studios film to prominently feature X-Men characters, although X-Men made cameo appearances in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and The Marvels. Additionally, Marvel successfully launched the X-Men '97 animated series last year, serving as a sequel to the beloved X-Men: The Animated Series.
Interestingly, a recent report from THR suggested that Ryan Reynolds is considering a Deadpool and X-Men team-up film, likely separate from this project. Similar to Deadpool & Wolverine, this prospective film would probably exist outside the main MCU timeline.
Furthermore, Avengers: Doomsday is set to include multiple actors from the original X-Men films, such as Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Ian McKellen as Magneto, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, James Marsden as Cyclops, and Channing Tatum as Gambit. At this time, there is no indication regarding whether Jackman will reprise his role as Wolverine in the film, which is scheduled to be released in theaters on May 1, 2026.
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NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
Black holes are the ravenous giants of the universe: extremely dense entities capable of consuming any material that ventures too close and then obliterating it. Recent observations from astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured a black hole actively consuming a star, tearing it apart and producing a significant burst of radiation.
This radiation burst, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE), enabled researchers to locate the black hole. The TDE identified as AT2024tvd was remarkable for a particularly uncommon reason: while most supermassive black holes are usually found at the very center of a galaxy, this one is a nomadic rogue.
"The typical location for massive black holes within a galaxy is at the center, similar to our Sag A* at the heart of the Milky Way,” said lead researcher Yuhan Yao from UC Berkeley. "That's where scientists usually look for tidal disruption events. However, this one is not at the center; it’s approximately 2,600 light years away. It is the first optically discovered off-nuclear TDE."
A six-panel illustration showcases a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
In addition to Hubble, researchers utilized other instruments like NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the NRAO Very Large Array telescope to study the TDE — as depicted above.
The black hole starts as a dark and elusive object, but when a star approaches too closely, it is gravitationally captured and elongated, or more technically, “spaghettified” into an extreme form. This process results in a disk-shaped cloud of material encircling the black hole, and this material rapidly spirals into the black hole, generating a flash of radiation across X-ray to radio wavelengths that can be detected from Earth, revealing that the black hole is not centrally located in the galaxy as anticipated.
In fact, this galaxy contains not just one supermassive black hole, but two: one at the galactic center and the other as a wandering entity. It is believed that this situation arises when two smaller galaxies collide and merge to create a larger galaxy.
“Massive black holes typically reside at the centers of galaxies, but we know that galaxies undergo mergers — that is how they grow. When two galaxies combine to become one, multiple black holes emerge,” explained co-author Ryan Chornock, also from UC Berkeley. “What happens next? We anticipate that they will eventually coalesce, but theorists have predicted a population of black holes that roam within galaxies.”
The researchers suggest that the two supermassive black holes in this galaxy could potentially merge in the future, a monumental event that would generate gravitational waves capable of being detected from Earth.
This research is set to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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This radiation burst, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE), enabled researchers to locate the black hole. The TDE identified as AT2024tvd was remarkable for a particularly uncommon reason: while most supermassive black holes are usually found at the very center of a galaxy, this one is a nomadic rogue.
"The typical location for massive black holes within a galaxy is at the center, similar to our Sag A* at the heart of the Milky Way,” said lead researcher Yuhan Yao from UC Berkeley. "That's where scientists usually look for tidal disruption events. However, this one is not at the center; it’s approximately 2,600 light years away. It is the first optically discovered off-nuclear TDE."
A six-panel illustration showcases a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
In addition to Hubble, researchers utilized other instruments like NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the NRAO Very Large Array telescope to study the TDE — as depicted above.
The black hole starts as a dark and elusive object, but when a star approaches too closely, it is gravitationally captured and elongated, or more technically, “spaghettified” into an extreme form. This process results in a disk-shaped cloud of material encircling the black hole, and this material rapidly spirals into the black hole, generating a flash of radiation across X-ray to radio wavelengths that can be detected from Earth, revealing that the black hole is not centrally located in the galaxy as anticipated.
In fact, this galaxy contains not just one supermassive black hole, but two: one at the galactic center and the other as a wandering entity. It is believed that this situation arises when two smaller galaxies collide and merge to create a larger galaxy.
“Massive black holes typically reside at the centers of galaxies, but we know that galaxies undergo mergers — that is how they grow. When two galaxies combine to become one, multiple black holes emerge,” explained co-author Ryan Chornock, also from UC Berkeley. “What happens next? We anticipate that they will eventually coalesce, but theorists have predicted a population of black holes that roam within galaxies.”
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Black holes are difficult to photograph because they engulf anything that strays too close, including light, due to their immensely strong gravitational pull. However, this does not render them invisible. While the black hole itself cannot be seen, the material circling around the edges of the event horizon glows brightly enough to be captured on camera. This new image utilizes a property of light known as polarization to unveil the powerful magnetic fields surrounding the massive black hole.
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