“Cosmological Coupling” – New Evidence Points to Black Holes as Source of Dark Energy
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
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A Cosmic Feast: Supermassive Black Holes Devour Intergalactic Gas
A study conducted by the University of Southampton has uncovered the process by which supermassive black holes (SMBHs) consume gas clouds that reach them by…
Revealed: First Dormant, Stellar-Mass Black Hole in Our Cosmic Backyard
Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, which the researchers have dubbed Gaia BH1. The dormant…
The Black Hole Puzzle: Piecing Together the Origins of Invisible Giants
Researchers say that current measurements of black holes are insufficient to determine the formation process of these invisible giants in the universe. The way a…
Cosmic Feast Unveiled: Two Supermassive Black Holes Discovered Dining Together
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s…
Revealing the Start of Time Itself: Ripples in the Fabric of the Universe May Peer Back to the Beginning of Everything We Know
Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know….
Black Hole Carnivals May Lead to Cosmic Crashes Seen by Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has detected about 85 pairs of black holes crashing into each other. We now know that Einstein was right: gravitational…
Black Hole Violently Tearing Apart a Star Unleashes Rare Luminous Jet of Matter
Astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology have played an important role in the discovery of a rare luminous jet of matter traveling close to…
Black Hole’s Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Twists Unlucky Star Into Donut Shape
A Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Swallows Unlucky Bypassing Star Black holes have such a voracious gravitational pull that they even swallow light. This makes them hungry…
Supermassive Black Holes en Route to Cataclysmic Collision: Doomed Pair Closer Than Ever Observed
New observations and analysis reveal two Goliath black holes just 750 light-years apart and closing, as they circle each other in the aftermath of a…
Unprecedented Discovery: Astronomers Observe Most Distant Black Hole Devouring a Star
Last year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible light had been detected by a…
Not Black Holes: Astronomers May Need To Rethink How Gamma-Ray Bursts Are Formed
According to recent research from the University of Bath in the UK, newborn supramassive stars, rather than black holes, may be the cause of gamma-ray…
Astronomers Catch a Black Hole Destroying a Nearby Star – Launching Powerful Relativistic Beams of Matter
Zwicky Transient Facility Makes First Discovery of a Rare Cosmic “Lunch” Astronomers caught a black hole chomping on a nearby star and releasing jets in…
Polarized X-Rays Reveal Stunning New Details About Extremely Hot Matter Surrounding Black Hole
Researchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately…
Black Hole Tears Apart Unlucky Star – NASA Gets Unusually Close View of Dramatic Destruction
NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Destroying a Star Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand…
Astrophysicists Hunt for Second-Closest Supermassive Black Hole – 3,000,000 Times the Mass of the Sun
A behemoth black hole, as massive as the one at the center of the Milky Way, is hosted by a dwarf galaxy less than 1…
Millions of Supercomputer-Generated “Universes” Reveal How Black Holes Grow
Researchers at the University of Arizona leveraged supercomputing power to create simulations of millions of computer-generated “universes” to test astrophysical predictions that have eluded astronomical…
Supermassive Black Hole Violently Rips Star Apart, Launches Relativistic Jet Toward Earth
Rare Sighting of Luminous Jet Spewed by Supermassive Black Hole Astronomers discover a bright optical flare caused by a dying star’s encounter with a supermassive…
