Black hole merger events are some of the most energetic, fearsomely energetic events in all the cosmos. When black holes…
A black hole as a source of energy? We know black holes as powerful singularities, regions in space time where…
Somewhere around 2.5 solar masses is the line between black holes and neutron stars. Now we've found an object right…
Where do they come from, those beguiling singularities that flummox astrophysicists—and the rest of us. Sure, we understand the processes…
It's a truism to point out that modern humans have only been around for the blink of an eye, relative…
One of the most pressing questions in astronomy concerns black holes. We know that massive stars that explode as supernovae…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted a distant black hole shooting out jets of material, at close to the speed…
Recent observations by the now-retired Spitzer mission have led to accurate predictions OJ 287, a blazar that contains a supermassive…
After almost 30 years of observing a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy,…
A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by…