Black Holes
This is it! Meet the Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
The Event Horizon Telescope has just released the first images of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center…
A Supermassive Black Hole Just Flipped its Entire Magnetic Field
Astronomers may have seen the magnetic field of a black hole undergo a magnetic reversal.
NASA Releases a Simulation of 22 Known Black Hole Binary Systems
Want to take a look at some black hole binary systems? Well then NASA's got your back with this stunning…
A Space Telescope Could Reveal a Black Hole's Photon Ring
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has shown what a space-based interferometry telescope could reveal about supermassive…
Astronomers Discover Eight Echoes from Black Holes
A black hole in an x-ray binary system pulls material away from its neighbor star and into its accretion disk.…
This is it! On May 12th we’ll see the Event Horizon Telescope’s Image of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope Consortium has some big news about the center of our galaxy, and will be announcing at…
In Some Places, Black Holes are Tearing Apart Thousands of Stars at a Time
A new study has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow by consuming high-density star clusters
An Ancestor of Supermassive Black Holes, Found at Cosmic Dawn
Using Hubble data, an international team of researchers has spotted what could be a primordial ancestor to supermassive black holes…
A new way to Confirm Hawking's Idea That Black Holes Give off Radiation
A quantum experiment simulates how Hawking radiation could affect quantum systems.
It Turns out, the “Closest Black Hole” System Doesn’t Contain a Black Hole At All
One thousand light-years away is pretty close for a black hole. When researchers discovered a black hole at that distance…