Black Holes
We Knew Black Holes Have a Temperature. It Turns out They Also Have a Pressure
Black holes have a pressure as well as a temperature, thanks to the thermodynamics of quantum gravity.
In Addition to Gravitational Waves, is There any way to Detect Merging Black Holes
If two black holes merge in the middle of space, and nobody's around to see it, does it really happen?…
Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Energy From Black Holes. Here’s how we Could Detect Them
Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them - they’re also one of the universe’s…
This is How a Supermassive Black Hole Feeds
A new simulation has provided new insight into how supermassive black holes grow by feeding off of cosmic gas captured…
You can Tell how big a Black Hole is by how it Eats
Astronomers can determine the size of a black hole by the way it consumes nearby matter.
If the First Black Holes Collapsed Directly, Could we Detect Radio Signals From Those Moments?
The birth of direct collapse black holes could be seen by radio telescopes in the near future.
A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind…
The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center…
How did Supermassive Black Holes Form? Collapsing Dark Matter Halos can Explain Them
We don't quite understand how the first supermassive black holes formed so quickly in the young universe. So a team…
Hawking Made a Prediction About Black Holes, and Physicists Just Confirmed it
Astronomers have found the first evidence that black holes follow the laws of thermodynamics.