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…
Myth of wormholes and the quantum meaning of Einstein-Rosen Bridge
For decades, wormholes have been hypothesized as mysterious tunnels that might let us cross galaxies or even time…
Astronomers Captured a Rare Image of a Supermassive Black Hole Erupting Like a Cosmic Volcano After 100 million Years of Silence
This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
Astronomers Discover Triple System of Active Galactic Nuclei 1.2 Billion Light-Years Away
A rare trio of merging galaxies called J121/1219+1035 hosts three actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes, according to…
Record-Breaking Cosmic Burst Caused by Stellar-Mass Black Hole Shredding Its Companion
Using data gathered by a suite of space- and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered AT 2024wpp, the most…