Black Hole

Machine learning reveals how black holes grow

As different as they may seem, black holes and Las Vegas have one thing in common: What happens there stays there – much to the...

A black hole has been burping for 100 million years

Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them, not even light. So when anything...

A black hole consumed a star and released the light of a trillion suns

When a flash of light appears somewhere in the sky, astronomers notice. When it appears in a region of the sky not known to host...

Astronomers caught a black hole chomping on a nearby star

The universe can be a violent place. Stars die or collide with each other and black holes devour everything that gets too close. These and other...

Scientists discover a black hole jet, halfway across the universe, pointing straight toward Earth

Astronomers identified an extremely bright black hole jet, halfway across the universe, pointing straight toward Earth.

Astrophysicists hunt for second-closest supermassive black hole

As massive as the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, the behemoth is hosted by a dwarf galaxy less than 1...

Star death reveals a midsize black hole lurking in a dwarf galaxy

An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too...

New discovery about extremely hot matter around black hole

Researchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region...

A black hole is hurling a jet of material at its neighboring galaxy

It’s been a banner time for black hole research! In recent months, astrophysicists have announced the discovery of the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded...

Scientists find a unique black hole firing jets at neighboring galaxy

With the help of citizen scientists, a team of astronomers has discovered a unique black hole spewing a fiery jet at another galaxy. The black...