Runaway Star Ejected From the Galactic Heart of Darkness Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h (~3.7 million m/h),…
Scientists have reported detecting gravitational waves from 10 black hole mergers to date, but they are still trying to explain the origins of those mergers….
A group of Skoltech researchers led by Professor Anatoly Dymarsky studied the emergence of generalized thermal ensembles in quantum systems with additional symmetries. As a…
Potential new class of black holes that are smaller than researchers believed possible. Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of…
Scientists with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) team presented their new results on black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries during a press conference…
In a theoretical study, physicists propose that perturbations in the orbit of stars near supermassive black holes could be used to detect wormholes. A new…
“Weather” in clusters of galaxies may explain a long-standing puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. The scientists used sophisticated…
You’ve probably never noticed it, but our solar system is moving along at quite a clip. Stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way,…
At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers…
Most galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their nucleus, one whose mass exceeds a million solar-masses. When material actively accretes onto the SMBH,…
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Southampton, have used state-of-the-art cameras to create a high frame-rate movie of a growing black…
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to…
UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formation. Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have…
The center of our galaxy is a crowded place: A black hole weighing 4 million times as much as our Sun is surrounded by millions…
Two University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers have identified and corrected a subtle error that was made when applying Einstein’s equations to model the growth…
An international group of scientists led by the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used observations from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the…
Astronomers have spotted three giant black holes within a titanic collision of three galaxies. The unusual system was captured by several observatories, including three NASA…
Some relationships are written in the stars. That’s definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from…