Black Holes
Hyperfast Star Ejected from the Large Magellenic Cloud
Occasionally, stars minding their own business around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy get chucked out…
Fat Black Holes Can Lurk in Thin Galaxies
Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk at the heart of most galaxies. Scientists have long believed that only the…
Death Echos of Material Destroyed Near a Black Hole
Greedy black holes can only consume so much material. The leftover matter backs up into an accretion disk surrounding the…
Black Holes Seen Spinning at the Limits Predicted by Einstein
The supermassive black holes that lurk at the hearts of the most massive galaxies might be spinning faster than astronomers…
There May Be Hundreds of Rogue Black Holes in the Milky Way
Uh oh, this doesn't sound good. It turns out there could be hundreds of rogue black holes, each weighing thousands…
Hidden Quasars – Found!
Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe. Just a single quasar can blaze more than a hundred…
Black Holes Linked to Cosmic Rays
You know that big list of unsolved mysteries in astronomy? Well, you can remove, "what causes the highest energy cosmic…
Podcast: Rising Winds from Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers now believe there's a supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of every galaxy. When these monsters are actively…
Supermassive Black Holes Shape Their Galaxies
Astronomers are now understanding the connection between supermassive black holes and the galaxies they inhabit better and better. In fact,…
An Even More Massive Black Hole
Wait, stop the internet! Remember when I said the most massive black hole had been discovered? Sorry, that record has…