Event Horizon Telescope Pinpoints Possible Origin of Messier 87’s Black Hole Jet
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes — have identified…
Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say
How the most massive objects in the universe first formed is one of the biggest headscratchers in astrophysics.…
Back from the dead, a black hole is erupting after a 100-million-year hiatus
Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio…
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…
Supermassive black hole grows 13 times faster than cosmic speed limits
Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that is growing at a…
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…
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…
Black hole space volcano erupts after 100 million year nap
A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber,…
“The Model That We Started Off With is Wrong”: Astronomers Say These Odd Blue ‘Optical Transients’ Aren’t What We Thought They Were
Unusual blue and ultraviolet bursts called luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) have been studied by astronomers for…
Astronomers Spot Extraordinary Blast from Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 3783
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a JAXA-led mission with ESA and NASA…
What NASA says would happen if Earth got too close to a black hole |
Black holes capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts because they represent the most extreme gravitational forces…