VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
Scientists just doubled our catalog of black hole and neutron star collisions
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Stephen Hawking writes a tiny paper — and turns our understanding of black holes inside out — March 1, 1974
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Caught on camera: Black hole seen tearing a star apart for the first time |
Caught on camera: Black hole seen tearing a star apart for the first time (AI-generated) Astronomers have reported…
New theory argues wormholes are time mirrors, not cosmic tunnels
Theoretical research led by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga of the University of Portsmouth challenges the longstanding scientific belief that…
Webb Detects Unexpected Richness of Hydrocarbons in Obscured Core of Nearby Ultra-Luminous Galaxy
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered an unprecedented richness of small gas-phase hydrocarbons —…
Why supermassive black hole continues to belch matter years after chewing up a star
Scientists are observing the behaviour of ‌a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits. Primarily…
This black hole may be 100 trillion times more powerful than Star Wars’ Death Star, scientists find
Published on 05/02/2026 – 17:32 GMT+1 A supermassive black hole has been generating more energy than the Death…
Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as…
A Telescope Mounted To A Massive Balloon Tells Us More About Black Holes Than Ever Before » TwistedSifter
Pixabay They’re as unending as they are inescapable, and these are two of the factors that make black…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…