A black hole has cleared out its neighborhood
We can’t see them directly, but we know they’re there. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) likely dwell at the center of every large galaxy.
Their overwhelming...
Even early galaxies grew hand-in-hand with their supermassive black holes
Within almost every galaxy there is a supermassive black hole.
This by itself implies some kind of formative connection between the two.
We have also observed...
Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars
Star-shredding black holes are everywhere in the sky if you just know how to look for them. That’s one message from a new study...
It’s a fine line between a black hole energy factory and a black hole...
Black holes are powerful gravitational engines.
So you might imagine that there must be a way to extract energy from them given the chance, and...
Scientists discover the oldest known black hole in the universe
In a stunning discovery, astronomers have found the oldest black hole ever seen.
This massive space giant, dating back to the very early days of...
Astronomers uncover massive black holes in early universe, challenging previous theories
Astronomers have made a startling discovery about young, distant galaxies: their central black holes are much bigger than we ever thought.
This finding, made possible...
This is the oldest black hole ever seen
There’s an incredibly ancient black hole out there that’s challenging astronomers to explain how it could exist only 400 million years after the Big...
Is this the lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star
About 40,000 light-years away, a rapidly spinning object has a companion that’s confounding astronomers.
It’s heavier than the heaviest neutron stars, yet at the same...
What will happen if there is a black hole inside the sun?
In a striking blend of astronomy and theoretical physics, scientists have explored a mind-bending scenario: what if black holes existed inside stars?
This concept, stemming...
The holographic secret of black holes
As weird as it might sound, black holes appear to be holograms.
In the 1980’s physicist Jacob Bekenstein was able to calculate exactly how much...