Here’s What Happens When a Supermassive Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job [Video]
A new study reveals what happens when a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy cluster stops being active. By combining data from…
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Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job, Unleashing a Remarkable Torrent of Star Formation
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
Rapid Changes Detected in a Black Hole May Explain Origin of the Most Energetic Radiation in the Universe
Scientists from the University of Valencia detect rapid changes in a black hole that may help understand the origin of gamma-ray bursts. A team from…
Runaway Star Might Explain Mysterious Black Hole Disappearing Act
The telltale sign that the black hole was feeding vanished, perhaps when a star interrupted the feast. The event could lend new insight into these…
Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe – 1.5 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun
The second most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name. Astronomers have discovered the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international…
How Galaxies Die: New Insights Into Galaxy Halos, Black Holes, and Quenching of Star Formation
A simple model explains a wide range of observations by describing a contest between galaxy halos and their central black holes that eventually turns off…
Astronomers Watch a Black Hole’s Corona Mysteriously Disappear, Then Reappear
A colliding star may have triggered the drastic transformation. It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run…
Bold Plan to Determine If Planet Nine Is a Primordial Black Hole
Scientists at Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and…
“Ghost” Galaxy Offers Breakthrough in Deciphering Birth of Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers zoom in on black hole with one of the lowest masses ever observed in nearby “ghost” galaxy. A research team led by Cardiff University…
Hungry Black Hole Among the Most Massive in the Universe – 34 Billion Times the Mass of Our Sun
We now know just how massive the fastest-growing black hole in the Universe actually is, as well as how much it eats, thanks to new…
Black Hole Swallows Much Smaller Mysterious Astrophysical Object
A black hole around 23 times the size of the Sun has swallowed a mysterious, much smaller astrophysical object, according to new research announced today by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories,…
Extremely Warped Spacetime: To Find Giant Black Holes, Start With Jupiter
The revolution in our understanding of the night sky and our place in the universe began when we transitioned from using the naked eye to…
Alien Civilization Could Use a Black Hole to Generate Energy – 50-Year-Old Theory Experimentally Verified
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy has been experimentally verified for…
Gravitational Wave Astronomers Find Mystery Object in Mass Gap
For decades astronomers have been puzzled by a gap that lies between neutron stars and black holes, but a major new discovery has found a…
Astronomers Believe They Have Spotted the First Known Light Flare From a Pair of Colliding Black Holes
In a first, astronomers may have seen light from the merger of two black holes, providing opportunities to learn about these mysterious dark objects. When…
Monster Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Found in the Early Universe
Most massive quasar known in early universe discovered on Maunakea. The second-most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name. Astronomers have discovered the…
Astronomers Find Evidence Black Hole Collision Exploded With Light
Possible light flare observed from small black holes within the disk of a massive black hole. When two black holes spiral around each other and…
Mystery Astronomical Object in ‘Mass Gap’ Discovered by LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Observatory
Object lies between heaviest known neutron star and lightest known black hole. An international research collaboration, including Northwestern University astronomers, has detected a mystery object…