Researchers spotted a black hole with 800 million solar masses inside a quasar that dates back to a mere 690 million years after the Big Bang brought the universe into existence.
Himanshu Goenka
Dec 07, 2017
A supermassive black hole is the farthest one scientists have ever found, but it is so large and old that astronomers don’t know what to make of it.
Elana Glowatz
Dec 06, 2017
Astronomers have found 11 stars forming super close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, when really that black hole should be tearing them apart.
Elana Glowatz
Nov 28, 2017
A new method of measurement is modeled on thermonuclear explosions on the surface of the stars, which are the second-most dense objects known in the universe.
Himanshu Goenka
Nov 23, 2017
It takes something as stupendous as the merger between two black holes to generate detectable gravitational waves. Here's how such incredible cosmic objects form.
David Blair
Nov 18, 2017
The relatively small black holes that merged — the resulting gravitational waves were detected June 8 — were located about a billion light-years from Earth.
Himanshu Goenka
Nov 17, 2017
The gravitational waves detected so far were caused by mergers of black holes, and in one case, neutron stars. Merging supermassive black holes will dwarf those in intensity.
Himanshu Goenka
Nov 14, 2017
The collision was seen in radio and X-ray wavelengths, as well as in visible light, and took place about four billion light-years from Earth.
Himanshu Goenka
Nov 08, 2017
Researchers made progress in new research on how the relativistic jets of black holes form.
Nina Godlewski
Oct 30, 2017
Black holes might be connected across the universe with wormholes running between them.
Elana Glowatz
Oct 30, 2017
Astronomers have used data from several observatories to locate not one, but five very elusive supermassive black hole pairs.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Oct 04, 2017
The formation of supermassive black holes have been a mystery. Scientists have found that supersonic streams of gas left behind from the Big Bang holds the answers.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Sep 29, 2017
Researchers may have been wrong about galaxies and how much energy their black holes consume and emit.
Nina Godlewski
Sep 28, 2017
Black holes are invisible, so measuring them can be a difficult task. Scientists have found a shortcut for weighing the space voids.
Elana Glowatz
Sep 20, 2017
While black hole binaries are not uncommon, only one pair of orbiting supermassive black holes had been known so far.
Himanshu Goenka
Sep 19, 2017
Astrophysicists have devised a new method to study these distant and mysterious objects that does not require any new instruments or data, but instead exploits the discrepancies in existing observations.
Himanshu Goenka
Sep 13, 2017
Primordial black holes created right after the Big Bang could have helped form gold, silver, platinum and other heavy metals in our galaxy.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Sep 05, 2017
A huge potential black hole was detected near the heart of the Milky Way and is one hundred thousand times bigger than the sun.
Nina Godlewski
Sep 04, 2017
A radio burst has been detected for the third time by scientists. This is the only case of a repeating signal recorded from the same source in space. Could this be our big-eyed neighbors trying to talk to us?
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Sep 01, 2017
Artificial intelligence based networks are able to extract information from gravitational images faster than humans.
Rishabh Jain
Aug 31, 2017
A new study theorizes that black holes might actually have cast the first light into the universe.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 30, 2017
Black holes will one day disappear, but that contradicts what we think we know about physics.
Elana Glowatz
Aug 26, 2017