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"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.
“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...
Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...
The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...
A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...
At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...
At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...
The massive black hole has been dubbed GW231123. Its unusual size and behavior is challenging scientists' understanding of ...