Black Holes
When Black Holes Merge, They'll Ring Like a Bell
How a merged black hole rings as it settles into a stable form holds clues to a better understanding of…
Where Are the Missing Black Holes? The Hubble May Have Helped Find One
Most black holes are stellar mass black holes. They're created when a star several times more massive than our Sun…
Galactic Black Hole Winds Blow Up to a Third the Speed of Light. The Impact on Their Galaxies is Impressive.
A new study by the SUper massive Black hole Winds in the x-rAYS (SUBWAYS) project explores the role of "space…
Black Holes Might be Defects in Spacetime
A team of theoretical physicists have discovered a strange structure in space-time that to an outside observer would look exactly…
Advanced Life Should Have Already Peaked Billions of Years Ago
Did humanity miss the party? Are SETI, the Drake Equation, and the Fermi Paradox all just artifacts of our ignorance…
Black Hole Event Horizons Can Get So Big it'll Boggle Your Imagination
Some black holes are truly monsters, and astronomers are pretty good at determining just how large they are.
Gaze at a Nearby Actively Feeding Supermassive Black Hole
Astronomers recently shared a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy NGC 4395. This relatively diffuse…
A Black Hole Tore a Star to Pieces. The Closest We’ve Ever Seen.
We all know that black holes are destructive monsters. Their tremendous gravitational pull sucks in anything that gets in the…
These Stars are Already Merging, but Their Future Will Be Catastrophic
Two stars are in the process of merging, but they will become black holes before they do.
A Supermassive Black Hole and its Jet, All in a Single Picture
In May 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team released the first-ever radio image of M87's central black hole. It…