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In a galaxy some 450 million light-years away, a brilliant flare of light revealed a probable black hole that suddenly woke ...
"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...
Shutterstock It’s amazing how much astronomers and astrophysicists are learning about the cosmos each and every day – with ...
Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
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 rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...
Scientists at the LIGO Hanford Observatory have made a groundbreaking discovery by observing the largest black hole merger ever recorded through gravitational waves.
Supermassive black holes, sitting at the core of galaxies, are known to be active and emit a lot of X-rays. Finding one way ...
“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...
At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...