How a black hole in orbit around a planet could be a sign of...
In 1971, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed how energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole.
He argued that this...
We know when a black hole will have its next feast
Black holes are notoriously destructive to stars near them. Astronomers often see flashes representing the death throes of stars collapsing past the event horizon,...
NASA tracks a black hole’s snack time
Scientists have made a major discovery about how and when a supermassive black hole consumes material, thanks to data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory,...
Scientists propose using small black holes to detect massive black holes
Astrophysicists from around the world, including researchers from the University of Zurich, have come up with an exciting new way to detect massive black...
Scientists discover hidden dust near supermassive black hole
Scientists have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover a hidden layer of dust in a galaxy 70 million light-years away.
This discovery,...
Scientists discover new black hole near the center of our galaxy
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Florian Peißker, has discovered signs of a new intermediate-mass black hole near the supermassive black hole...
Scientists explore how gravitational waves could reveal dark matter and early universe secrets
Gravitational waves, ripples in space-time first predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago, were finally detected in 2015.
Now, a new study led by Yanou...
Scientists uncover new insights into black hole growth and evolution
Astrophysicists at Caltech have achieved a groundbreaking feat: they have simulated the journey of primordial gas from the early universe to the moment it...
Scientists challenge the role of black holes in dark matter
In a groundbreaking study, scientists have raised questions about whether black holes are responsible for dark matter in the universe.
This new research, conducted by...
No light black holes: quantum physics debunks decades-old theory
For the past seventy years, astrophysicists have speculated about the existence of "kugelblitze," special black holes formed from extremely high concentrations of light.
These theoretical...