Astronomers witness brightest and most distant black hole flare ever recorded
Astronomers have captured the most powerful and farthest black hole flare ever recorded—a cosmic light show so bright it outshined 10 trillion suns.
The flare,...
Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups
A pair of distant black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, are improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution...
Astronomers capture first-ever image of two black holes dancing around each other
For the first time, scientists have captured an image of two black holes orbiting one another.
The pair sits at the heart of a bright,...
Two black holes observed circling each other for the first time
Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole.
The object in question was...
A greedy black hole eats through two giant cosmic spirals
Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two enormous spiral arms of gas.
This...
Astronomers spot a black hole shredding a star far from any galactic center
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have detected powerful radio signals from a black hole tearing apart a star—and surprisingly, it didn’t happen in the...
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...