Scientists capture huge rings around a black hole
A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
The X-ray images...
Scientists detect the light from behind a black hole for the first time
Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions, produced as gas falls into a supermassive black hole.
Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the...
Scientists take pioneering image of massive jet spewing from black hole
Scientists anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy Messier...
Supermassive black holes do put a brake on stellar births, shows study
Black holes with masses equivalent to millions of suns do put a brake on the birth of new stars, say astronomers.
Using machine learning and...
Scientists detect first black hole-neutron star mergers
A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years away, two black holes each gobbled up their neutron star companions, triggering gravitational...
How did supermassive black holes form?
We don’t quite understand how the first supermassive black holes formed so quickly in the young universe.
So, a team of physicists are proposing a...
Scientists confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem observationally
Even the most extreme objects in the universe – including black holes – must obey certain rules.
A central law for black holes predicts that...
Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time
There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey.
A central law for black holes predicts that the area...
How a supermassive black hole originates
Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun.
The Milky Way...
Do supermassive black holes merge to form binary systems?
At the center of most galaxies are black holes so massive — up to several billion times the mass of our sun — that...