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...
Astronomers find the longest black hole jets ever seen
Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery.
They have fascinating impacts on the surrounding...
The early universe had a lot of black holes
The Hubble Deep Field and its successor, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, showed us how vast our Universe is and how it teems with galaxies...
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole might have formed 9 billion years ago
Large galaxies like ours are hosts to Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs.)
They can be so massive that they resist comprehension, with some of them having...
Two supermassive black holes on a collision course with each other
Galaxy collisions are foundational events in the Universe. They happen when two systems mingle stars in a cosmic dance.
They also cause spectacular mergers of...
Dark matter could have driven the growth of early supermassive black holes
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps finding supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe.
They’re in active galactic nuclei seen only 500,000 years...