Another way to extract energy from black holes?
The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange.
It is so powerful that it warps space and time back upon itself,...
Scientists discover new clues about black hole jets
A new study led by the University of Michigan reveals fascinating insights into how black holes shoot out powerful streams of high-energy particles, known...
Scientists discover the first “black hole triple”
Physicists at MIT and Caltech have made an unexpected discovery—a “black hole triple” system, the first of its kind ever found.
While most black holes...
A black hole has destroyed a star, and used the wreckage to pummel another...
When a supermassive black hole consumes a star, it doesn’t just swallow it whole. It shreds the star, ripping it apart bit by bit...
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...
There were more black holes in the early universe than we thought, study finds
Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive (and scary) objects in the universe—with masses around 1 billion times more than that of...
Jets from supermassive black holes create new stars along their trajectory
Since the 1970s, astronomers have observed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reside at the centers of most massive galaxies.
In some cases, these black holes...
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...