“Closest Black Hole” System Doesn’t Contain a Black Hole – “Stellar Vampirism”
In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just 1000 light-years away in the…
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Astronomers Find Two Supermassive Black Holes Spiraling Toward a Cataclysmic Collision
A supermassive black hole 9 billion light-years away appears to have a companion black hole orbiting around it. As the orbit shrinks, the pair gets…
Death Spiral: A Black Hole Spins on Its Side – “Completely Unexpected”
Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than…
Colossal Black Holes Locked in an Epic Cosmic Dance at Heart of Galaxy
Astronomers find evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date. Locked in an epic cosmic waltz 9 billion light years away, two…
Black Hole Tears Apart a Star Decades Ago – Goes Unnoticed Until Now
Every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, has at its center a massive black hole whose gravity influences the stars around it. Generally, the stars…
Astronomers Uncover Hidden Supermassive Black Hole
An international team of astronomers led by Violeta Gámez Rosas (Leiden University) has observed a supermassive black hole hidden in a ring of dust. This…
Astronomers May Use Pulsars To Detect Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years now, but may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron…
We Think We’ve Spotted the Mysterious Birth of a Black Hole
Astronomers are increasingly drawing back the curtains on black holes. In the past few years, we have finally captured actual photos of these fearsome creatures…
Supermassive Black Hole Caught Hiding in an Immense Ring of Cosmic Dust
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center of the galaxy Messier 77…
A Quantum Physics Approach to a Singularity Problem
One of the major issues in general relativity that separates it from other descriptions of the universe, like quantum physics, is the existence of singularities….
Astronomers Think They’ve Just Detected an “Invisible” Black Hole
Astronomers famously snapped the first-ever direct image of a black hole in 2019, thanks to material glowing in its presence. But many black holes are…
What’s Inside a Black Hole? Physicist Probes Holographic Duality With Quantum Computing To Find Out
Dude, what if everything around us was just … a hologram? The thing is, it could be—and a University of Michigan physicist is using quantum…
First Rogue Black Hole Ever Discovered – And It’s Only 5,000 Light-Years Away
Microlensing strikes again. Astronomers have been using the technique to detect everything from rogue planets to the most distant star ever seen. Now, astronomers have…
Origin of Supermassive Black Hole Flares Identified: Magnetic “Reconnection” Near the Event Horizon
Largest-ever simulations suggest flickering powered by magnetic ‘reconnection.’ Researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators found that breaking and reconnecting magnetic field lines near…
Extraordinary Black Hole – Unlike Any Other – Discovered in Neighboring Galaxy
The discovery, one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, lives in an equally rare object known as a low-mass, stripped nucleus. Astronomers discovered a…
Highly Eccentric Black Hole Merger Detected for the First Time
Findings by the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation published in Nature Astronomy. For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of…
The First Black Hole Image: A Gravitomagnetic Monopole as an Alternative Explanation
New research suggests alternative explanations for the massive compact object at the center of the galaxy M87 questioning if this could contain gravitomagnetic monopole. The…
How Many Black Holes Are in the Universe? 40,000,000,000,000,000,000
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall…
