We know when a black hole will have its next feast
Black holes are notoriously destructive to stars near them. Astronomers often see flashes representing the death throes of stars collapsing past the event horizon,...
NASA tracks a black hole’s snack time
Scientists have made a major discovery about how and when a supermassive black hole consumes material, thanks to data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory,...
How a black hole could eat a neutron star from the inside out
Primordial black holes are thought to have formed early in the evolution of the universe.
None have been discovered yet but if they do exist...
Scientists propose using small black holes to detect massive black holes
Astrophysicists from around the world, including researchers from the University of Zurich, have come up with an exciting new way to detect massive black...
Scientists discover hidden dust near supermassive black hole
Scientists have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover a hidden layer of dust in a galaxy 70 million light-years away.
This discovery,...
Astronomers find the missing link between stellar and supermassive black holes
While black holes are known as the most destructive objects in the universe, their evolution is largely shrouded in mystery.
This is because while astronomers...
Scientists discover new black hole near the center of our galaxy
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Florian Peißker, has discovered signs of a new intermediate-mass black hole near the supermassive black hole...
Scientists explore how gravitational waves could reveal dark matter and early universe secrets
Gravitational waves, ripples in space-time first predicted by Einstein nearly a century ago, were finally detected in 2015.
Now, a new study led by Yanou...
Black holes dominate large regions of space, but they’re mysterious
In the beginning, the Universe was all primordial gas. Somehow, some of it was swept up into supermassive black holes (SMBHs), the gargantuan singularities...
Scientists uncover new insights into black hole growth and evolution
Astrophysicists at Caltech have achieved a groundbreaking feat: they have simulated the journey of primordial gas from the early universe to the moment it...