Scientists directly image particle jet emitted by supermassive black hole devouring a star
It's the first time astronomers have achieved this feat.
Tag: black hole
Astronomers discover the fastest-growing black hole we’ve ever known
It's the hungriest thing we've ever seen.
Scientists complete most precise star map, revealing hidden details in our galaxy
An incredibly fruitful mission sheds new secrets about the Milky Way.
Astronomers discover a clump of black holes around our galaxy’s center
For the first time, astronomers have managed to confirm the existence of a black hole population surrounding the core of ...
Gravitational waves might be created at the centre of most galaxies
Looks like we can expect more gravitational waves in the near future.
Supermassive black hole sends radio echoes of its stellar dinner
Another discovery that cements black holes' fundamental role in the evolution of the universe.
Oldest black hole found by astronomers — the gargantuan object lies 13 billion light years away from us
It's the farthest, oldest, and perhaps most mysterious object we've ever discovered.
Astronomers are on the lookout for low-frequency gravitational waves generated by merging supermassive black holes
An ingenious technique could enable us to witness some of the strongest gravitational waves.
Researchers find tantalizing evidence of mid-sized black hole in the Milky Way
If confirmed, this could indicate a remarkable progress in modern physics.
Supermassive black hole spotted struggling with its galactic meal
Sometimes, even a black hole can choke on its meal.
Orbiting supermassive black holes confirmed by astronomers for the time
This is one slow dance.
Physicists make waves by simulating black hole in a bathtub
Your childhood fantasies weren't all that off.
Nothing can escape a black hole’s clutch — and this proves Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (again)
Ready to sink your teeth into some black holes?
For the first time ever, we’ve seen a black hole being silently born — no supernova required
Why blow up when you can mass up?
Radio observatory equivalent to the size of Earth sets its gaze to the center of the Milky Way to image a supermassive black hole
This was thought to be impossible to undertake until not too long ago.
Supermassive black hole dislodged from its galactic throne travels at 5 million mph
In the aftermath of a titanic galactic battle, a merged black hole caused some waves.
To birth supermassive black holes in the early universe, some galaxies may have had to be sacrificed
A new study offers an unorthodox explanation for how supermassive black hole formed in the early Universe.
Astronomers discover the first “middleweight” black hole
Many more might be lurking in the galaxy.
You can’t see a black hole but this timelapse is the next best thing
And things are about to get even more exciting.
Astronomers may have discovered a new cosmic phenomena — and we don’t really know what it is
What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.
A monster supermassive black hole was surprised feeding on an unusual supper: cold gas
Astronomers used to think black holes feed exclusively on a hot gas and dust, but it seems they sometimes like ...
New algorithm will allow us to finally visualize black holes
We may actually get to see a black hole!
Supermassive blackholes are giants from birth
At the heart of virtually every galaxy, including the Milky Way, is a supermassive blackhole that's anywhere from hundreds of ...
Black holes store information as holograms at the event horizon, says Stephen Hawking
Nothing can escape a black hole, not even light, any scientists schooled in modern physics will tell you. Eminent British ...
Newly discovered ancient Black hole is monstrously big for its age
Astronomers have discovered a humongous supermassive black hole that's 12 billion times as massive as the Sun. What's peculiar about ...
Interstellar movie is helping scientists model REAL black holes
The team behind Interstellar's awesome special effects meant business when they set out to emulate space, celestial objects and black ...
When Galaxies Collide: Triple Black Hole System Discovered
Image Credits:NASA/CXC/UCLA/Z.LI AND NRAO/VLA Two decades ago, astronomers started to find evidence that almost all galaxies have a supermassive black ...
Researchers create a remarkably accurate model of our Universe and its evolution
The Illustris project took 5 years of software development and 3 months running on 8000 processors - but it sure was ...
Distant Black Hole Spins at Half the Speed of Light
Credits: X-RAY: NASA/CXC/UNIV OF MICHIGAN/R.C.REIS ET AL; OPTICAL: NASA/STSCI About half of the Universe's lifetime ago, it was feasting time ...
Scientists claim incredibly small stars emerge from black holes
Via Universe Today. Black holes have fascinated both researchers and laymen for decades. Without a doubt, they are the point ...
Stephen Hawking brings a new perspective on what we know as black holes
This same exact statement, ‘There are no black holes’, would be clearly criticized or not even taken into consideration. But ...
Our Universe may be just a Hologram, complex simulations show
In a black hole, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity clashes with quantum physics; for decades, scientists have tried to find ...
Armada of instruments witness the brightest cosmic event of the century: the birth of a black hole
An artist’s conception of the processes by which a star collapses and becomes a black hole, releasing high-energy gamma rays ...
Black holes with ‘hair’ – new theory challenges accepted model
A black hole is simple and clear, at least according to the model proposed in 1963 by Roy Kerr; his ...
The stars of the densest galaxy discovered thus far are 25 times closer than in Milky Way
This galaxy weighs more than 200 million suns, over half of which is concentrated within a radius of just 80 ...
Why there’s supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the heart of virtually every large galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole with a mass of a million to ...
Shorties: astronomers detect intergalactic radio signals from 11 billion light years away
The overwhelming part of the universe is still a mystery to astronomers - and most of what we know is ...
Black hole bonanza discovered in neighboring galaxy
Astronomers have discovered 26 likely black holes in the Andromea Galaxy - the biggest number of black holes ever found ...
Quantum theory takes out singularity, suggests black holes are wormholes
Black holes are the single most interesting and puzzling objects in our Universe - that we know of. But as ...
Black-hole wakes up from slumber and feasts on super-Jupiter planet
Artist illustration of the supermassive black hole consuming on a substellar object. (C) ESA In an unexpected discovery, astronomers have ...
Black hole ripping apart a red dwarf that’s orbiting at records speeds
ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope has found a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the whopping rate ...
A black hole 250 million light years away is emitting a low B-flat 57 octaves below middle C on a piano
This is not really news, but it's so awesome I just had to share it. Astronomers in England have discovered ...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for first time – nears the speed of light
Artist's impression of a spinning supermassive black hole with a surrounding accretion disk and relativistic jets. (c) NASA/JPL Astronomers have ...
Rare supernova leftovers might have produced the youngest black hole in the Milky Way
This highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The composite ...
NuSTAR’s high power X-ray images two unusually bright black holes in spiral galaxy [STUNNING PHOTOS]
The new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5. (c) NASA Launched just last year, NASA's Nuclear ...
Most powerful quasar outflow detected is two trillion times more energetic than the sun
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered the most powerful quasar outflow discovered to date - five times more ...
Finding black holes at a quantum scale
Most physicists believe that space is not smooth, but it is rather composed of incredibly small subunits, much like a ...
Black hole at the center of our galaxy bursts out
As far as black holes go, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is ...
Astronomers capture light from first stars using bright galaxies
I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is ...
