Astronomers spot black hole eating up to 3,000 Suns every year
Deep in the distant universe, astronomers have found a black hole that seems to be breaking the usual…
Something Extremely Strange Is Happening at the Event Horizon of This Supermassive Black Hole
In 2019, scientists unveiled the first-ever images of a black hole, M87*. Those observations kickstarted a wave of…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of…
Scientists finally confirm Hawking’s black hole law strengthening Einstein’s theory of gravity
Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the…
Gravitational waves help scientists measure newborn black hole’s ‘kick’
The historic finding comes about a decade after the first detection of gravitational waves performed by a famous…
Scientists say there is a 90% chance of witnessing a black hole explosion in next 10 years
According to the theory by Stephen Hawking, black holes emit particles and radiation, which leads to them gradually…
How were black holes discovered? 240-year-old concept hypothesised ‘dark stars’ which turned out to be…
Black holes weren’t always known by this name. In fact, the name wasn’t coined until 1967, and the…
We could spot a new type of black hole thanks to a mirror-wobbling AI
Black holes produce gravitational waves when they collide VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Efforts to understand the universe…
Ripples from the Big Bang could transform our understanding of the universe — and we may be close to detecting them
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Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA…
What Came Before the Big Bang? New Study Says ‘Numerical Relativity’ Could Unlock Cosmology’s Biggest Mysteries
It is one of cosmology’s most perplexing questions: what happened before the Big Bang? Although the question has…
Hubble Examines Low Brightness, High Interest Galaxy
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image zooms in on the feathery spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 45,…