Mystery of Supermassive Black Holes Shortly After the Big Bang – Explanation Discovered
These space giants would not have had the time to develop in the young Universe. Yet, observations say they were already present; a new study…
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Path to Razor-Sharp Black Hole Images Discovered – Striking and Intricate Substructure
Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image of a black hole. Today, a team of researchers…
OwO What’s This? Astronomers Study Galactic Bulge for Clues to Black Hole Mystery
This picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the galaxy NGC 4237. Located about 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of…
The Most Powerful Black Hole Eruption Ever Seen in the Universe
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion…
Star Torn Apart and Devoured by Ravenous Supermassive Black Hole
The subject of this Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, a spiral galaxy named NGC 1589, was once the scene of a violent bout…
Unexpected Glimpse of Newly Discovered Black Hole Caught by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light-years away….
Astronomers Map Black Hole Surroundings Using “Cosmic Echo-Location”
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now astronomers have used the echoes of this radiation to map the…
Record-Breaking, Gargantuan Black Hole Eruption – Biggest Explosion Seen in the Universe
The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds…
Black Hole Shredding a Star Leads to a New Astronomical Discovery
When a black hole chews up a star, we see this either in visible light or in X-rays, but almost never through both types of…
Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe Detected by Astronomers – “Really, Really Massive”
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive…
Leveraging Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, Astrophysicists Calculate How Many Stars Will Eventually Collide as Black Holes
Since the breakthrough in gravitational wave astronomy back in 2015, scientists have been able to detect more than a dozen pairs of closely located black…
Stephen Hawking’s Quantum Black Hole Hypothesis Supported by Gravitational Wave Echoes
Echoes in gravitational wave signals suggest that the event horizon of a black hole may be more complicated than scientists currently think. Research from the…
Astrophysicist Finds Massive Black Holes Wandering Around Dwarf Galaxies – “I Was Blown Away”
A new search led by Montana State University has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too…
Black Hole Dynamic Behavior and Surroundings Mapped by XMM-Newton for the First Time
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the…
Supermassive Influence Creates Peculiar Galaxy, Beautifully Streaked With Tendrils
This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is…
Massive Black Hole Collisions Illuminated by X-Rays and Gravitational Waves
A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable…
Massive Black Hole Mystery Solved With a Stripped Helium Star
When David Poses As Goliath Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black…
Understanding Black Holes: 5 Things to Know [Video]
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Here are five things to know! A black hole is a single point…