How black holes launch powerful jets across the universe
When astronomers released the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019, the world caught a glimpse of the monster at the center of...
Black holes have no hair, but they do have comb overs
Making a black hole is easy.
Just squeeze a bunch of stuff into a small enough volume. It doesn't even matter what you use.
You can...
Astronomers discover brightest fast radio burst and unlock its galactic location
Astronomers have just spotted the brightest fast radio burst (FRB) ever seen—and for the first time, they know exactly where it came from.
This discovery,...
Monster black hole J0529 spits gas at 10,000 km/s, rewriting its growth story
universe is behaving in an unexpected way.
Instead of quietly swallowing the gas and dust that fall into it, the black hole is blasting gas...
Tiny black holes could spark stellar explosions without a partner star
A new study suggests that mysterious, tiny black holes formed in the early universe might be responsible for one of astronomy’s most important and...
Astronomers spot a black hole growing 2.4 times faster than the cosmic limit
Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is growing faster than almost any ever seen before.
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found that this...
Did a dying black hole create the universe’s most powerful ghost particle?
Scientists may have just found a clue to one of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
A new study from MIT suggests that the most powerful neutrino...
An exploding black hole could be seen within the decade, study finds
For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they could explode in bursts...
The strange red dots in space may be “black hole stars”
Tiny, glowing red dots seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be one of the biggest surprises in modern astronomy.
At first, scientists...
This wandering black hole has left its galactic center
Our knowledge of black holes is incomplete.
We know there are stellar mass black holes that are created when massive stars collapse on themselves at...