Scientists discover a pair of hungry black holes
Astronomers have discovered a galactic table for two — a pair of unusually close black holes that are feeding together after their respective galaxies...
Millions of fake universes clarify how black holes grow
Black holes are surrounded by a mysterious, invisible layer—the event horizon—from which nothing can escape, be it matter, light, or information.
The event horizon swallows...
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...