Black Holes

Black Holes are Tearing Stars Apart All Around Us

Galaxy NGC3799 lies around 16 million light years from Earth. Any event observed today within that galaxy took place 16…

6 days ago

Astronomers Find the Most Massive Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Ever Seen

Supermassive black holes have been found at the heart of most galaxies but understanding how they have formed has eluded…

2 weeks ago

Powerful Jets From a Black Hole are Spawning Star Clusters

Supermassive black holes are messy feeders, and when they're gorging on too much material, they can hurl high-energy jets into…

4 weeks ago

The Brightest Object Ever Seen in the Universe

It's an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months…

4 weeks ago

Gravastars are an Alternative Theory to Black Holes. Here's What They'd Look Like

Astronomers continue to find more and more evidence of black holes, but there's an alternative theory that could explain the…

4 weeks ago

Black Holes Existed at the Dawn of Time, Birthing Stars and Encouraging Galaxy Formation

The Universe is full of galaxies, many containing supermassive black holes. That sparked a question: which came first—the galaxies or…

1 month ago

The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on a Black Hole's Jet

The Event Horizon Telescope has given us amazing views of the supermassive black holes at the hearts of M87 and…

1 month ago

The Early Universe Had Small Galaxies with Oversized Black Holes

When doing the marketing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA and the other telescope contributors liked to point…

1 month ago

A Black Hole Has Cleared Out Its Neighbourhood

We can't see them directly, but we know they're there. Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) likely dwell at the center of…

1 month ago

It's a Fine Line Between a Black Hole Energy Factory and a Black Hole Bomb

You might be surprised to learn there's a way to extract enormous energy from a rapidly spinning black hole. Known…

2 months ago