Black Holes
M87 Galaxy Reconstructed in Thrilling 3D
In astronomy, we speak casually of extremely large numbers and extremely vast distances as if they're trivial. A supermassive black…
Artificial Intelligence Produces a Sharper Image of M87’s Big Black Hole
Astronomers have used machine learning to sharpen up the Event Horizon Telescope's first picture of a black hole --- an…
Primordial Black Holes May Have “Frozen” the Early Universe
Primordial holes formed in the exotic conditions of the big bang may have become their own source of matter and…
Astronomers Think They've Found One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever Seen
Using the Gravitational Lensing technique, astronomers have found evidence of what could be the largest black hole ever detected!
Hypervelocity Stars Teach us About Black Holes and Supernovae
A new study shows how hypervelocity stars could teach us more about the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the…
A Tadpole-Shaped Cloud of Gas is Whirling Around a Black Hole
A team of astronomers from Japan have found a strange "Tadpole" shaped dust cloud near the center of our galaxy,…
How do Black Holes Make a Shadow?
It's notoriously difficult to take a picture of a black hole. But when they are surrounded by material we have…
Ultra-Massive Black Holes: How Does the Universe Produce Objects So Massive?
Black holes are the most massive objects that we know of in the Universe. Not stellar mass black holes, not…
A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of…
Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
The early Universe was swimming with dwarf galaxies only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. They merged…