Astronomers Observe Spacetime Whirlpool for the First Time
Einstein’s general theory of relativity comes with a lot of consequences that can best be described as “weird.”…
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…
NASA’s Chandra telescope uses ‘X-arithmetic’ to reveal how black holes shape galaxy clusters (images)
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Scientists spot monster black hole roaring with winds at more than 130 million mph
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These celestial objects survive the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole about 4 million…
Black hole spotted blasting winds at 130 million mph: “A scale almost too big to imagine”
A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating…
Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow up
It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what…
A Physicist Ran the Numbers on What Would Happen if a Tiny Black Hole Passed Through Your Body
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed…
Webb discovers rapidly growing black hole in the very early universe
9 Using the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has…
The James Webb Space Telescope Discovered A Supermassive Black Hole
A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of…
Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,”…
This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had…