Astronomers spot a black hole growing 2.4 times faster than the cosmic limit
Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is growing faster than almost any ever seen before.
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers found that this...
Did a dying black hole create the universe’s most powerful ghost particle?
Scientists may have just found a clue to one of the universe’s biggest mysteries.
A new study from MIT suggests that the most powerful neutrino...
An exploding black hole could be seen within the decade, study finds
For decades, physicists have suspected that black holes might not last forever—that at the very end of their lives, they could explode in bursts...
The strange red dots in space may be “black hole stars”
Tiny, glowing red dots seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be one of the biggest surprises in modern astronomy.
At first, scientists...
This wandering black hole has left its galactic center
Our knowledge of black holes is incomplete.
We know there are stellar mass black holes that are created when massive stars collapse on themselves at...
The messy habits of small black holes
The best opportunity to study black holes is when they're actively accreting matter.
During these times, matter gathers in an accretion disk around the black...
Could dark matter turn giant planets into black holes?
Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets.
These worlds are already changing how scientists think about...
Black holes may be powering the universe’s dark energy
For decades, scientists have puzzled over dark energy—the mysterious force causing the universe to expand faster and faster.
Now, researchers from Durham University, the University...
The universe’s first monster: Astronomers confirm earliest known black hole
Astronomers have confirmed the most distant black hole ever found, giving us a glimpse of one of the universe’s very first cosmic giants.
The discovery...
Astronomers find first signs of a third object behind merging black holes
Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, but a new discovery suggests that when two of them collide, there...