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…
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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…
First Image of a Black Hole Named Science’s 2019 Breakthrough of the Year
Honoring a feat that was once considered impossible, Science has named the Event Horizon Telescope’s image of a supermassive black hole as its 2019 Breakthrough…
Black Holes’ Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn Revealed by VLT [Video]
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. These gas halos are…
Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy May Not Be Alone
Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes…
What Happens When a Black Hole Eats a Star [Video]
What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory takes us…
Positive Feedback Black Hole Triggers Star Formation a Million Light Years Away
One black hole is influencing the rate of star formation in multiple galaxies and across vast distances. This is a rare example of “positive feedback”…
Surprise Discovery of Black Hole in Our Galaxy That “Should Not Even Exist”
Update (January 10, 2020): A team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Potsdam discovered that this object may not be a black hole…
Planets Around a Black Hole? Calculations Show Possibility of Bizarre Worlds of Astonishing Scale
“I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where the black planets roll without aim; Where they roll in their horror unheeding, without knowledge or lustre…
Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered at the Core of One Galaxy
Research team discovers three supermassive black holes at the core of one galaxy due to the simultaneous merging of giant galaxies. An international research team…
Furious Rate of Star Formation Driven by a Weakened Black Hole
Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA…
Using Gravitational Wave Astronomy to Observe a ‘Black Hole Symphony’ [Video]
Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent…
Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Flings Star Away at 6,000,000 km/h
An international study has discovered a star traveling at more than six million km/h through the Milky Way after being flung from the center of…
Scientists Discover What Happens When Nearly Extreme Black Holes Attempt to Regrow Hair
The black holes of Einstein’s theory of relativity can be completely described by just three parameters: their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge. Since…