Scientists find eight new sources of black hole echoes
Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes — immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter,...
In some places, black holes are tearing apart thousands of stars at a time
At the heart of the more massive galaxies in the Universe, there are supermassive black holes (SMBHs) so powerful that they outshine all of...
Scientists find possible location of medium-sized black holes
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense star clusters...
This black hole spins on its side
In a new study from University of Freiburg, scientists have reliably measured for the first time a large difference between the rotation axis of...
Scientists find rare black hole in our neighboring galaxy
Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other.
At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at...
Scientists discover a black hole’s death spiral
In a new study from University of Turku, researchers found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is...
Astronomers find the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo at heart of galaxy
Astronomers have discovered only the second known candidate for a pair of supermassive black holes caught in the act of merging.
And these behemoth...
Scientists detect a supermassive black hole hiding in a ring of cosmic dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the centre of the galaxy Messier 77 that...
Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, shows study
A new study confirms answers to Stephen Hawking's black hole information paradox.
Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says.
The study attempts to...
Are black holes and dark matter the one and the same?
Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang — tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive...