Discovery Reveals How Black Holes Evolve and Interact with Their Surroundings
Using the combined power of the Unit Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gathered new data on dust around the black hole at…
Using the combined power of the Unit Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gathered new data on dust around the black hole at…
A newly published study bridges the gap between theory and black hole observation, confirming how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light by demonstrating that…
Using data from 152 observations of Chandra spanning over 13 years, researchers discovered twenty-six new stellar-mass black hole candidates in Andromeda, also known as M31….
NuSTAR data reveals that the once active supermassive black hole at the center of the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is now dormant,…
A newly published study suggests that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
In a newly published study, physicists take singularity out of black holes, suggesting that black holes could serve as portals. LSU physicist and Center for…
Using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, scientists have detected and analyzed a variety of simple molecules at the center of Milky Way, allowing them to probe…
According to a newly published study from Caltech astrophysicist Anthony Piro, a new kind of cosmic flash may reveal the birth of a black hole….
Using data from the Very Large Array, astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming…
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once every two and a half hours, show that the binary’s…
By using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies, researchers have developed a method with the potential to…
Using ESA’s Integral space observatory, astronomers discovered and watched a black hole in galaxy NGC 4845 feed on a low-mass object that strayed too close….
Using data from ground observations and space telescopes, researchers have identified a red dwarf and black hole that orbit each other once every 2.4 hours,…
A newly published study from scientists at the University of York dismisses the so-called firewall paradox and reveals new insights into the life and death…
In a soon-to-be-published paper, researchers at Vanderbilt University suggest that several million years ago the Milky Way was teaming with starforming and accretion-powered activity that…
In a newly published study, researchers report a black hole with a mass greater than three times that of the Sun in a 2.8-hour period…
Using the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton telescopes, researchers traced matter as it swirled into a black hole, resolving a long-standing debate about black holes and gaining…
New 3D simulations performed on powerful supercomputers are helping researchers predicted the formation of accretion disks and relativistic jets that are shaped by the extreme…