Black Hole

A surging glow in a distant galaxy could change the way we look at...

Something strange is afoot in the galaxy known as 1ES 1927+654: In late 2017, and for reasons that scientists couldn't explain, the supermassive black hole...

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...

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...

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...

Scientists find the signal source in galaxy far far away

Super-bright stellar explosion is likely a dying star giving birth to a black hole or neutron star. In June of 2018, telescopes around the world...