This black hole destroys a star and targets another
Astronomers have made a fascinating discovery: a supermassive black hole destroyed a star and is now using the debris from that star to smash...
Scientists discover black hole spin causes wobbling in super-bright accretion disks
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe.
They have such strong gravity that not even light can escape them.
Around a...
Hubble unveils how black hole jets trigger explosions in nearby stars
In a surprising discovery, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found that a powerful jet of energy from a supermassive black hole...
How a black hole is ‘starving’ its galaxy to death
Astronomers using the powerful NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery: supermassive black holes can actually starve their host galaxies of...
Life needs black holes to survive
Life is rare, and it requires exactly the right environmental mix to establish itself. And there’s one surprising contributor to that perfect mix: gigantic...
Did dark matter help create giant black holes in the early universe?
Supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, take an incredibly long time to form.
Typically, a black hole...
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...