Black Holes
Maximizing Survival Time Inside the Event Horizon of a Black Hole
Here's a scenario that will face many of us in the far future. You're hurtling through the cosmos at nearly…
Black Holes Could Provide the Seeds of Life
You've heard it all before. Black holes pull with a gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.…
Photo Contains More Than 1,000 Supermassive Black Holes
Each of the multicoloured dots in this photograph is a black hole. The panorama was created using images taken by…
A Solution for the Black Hole Information Paradox?
One of the mysteries that has puzzled physicists has to do with black holes. When information goes into a black…
Our Supermassive Black Hole Is a Natural Particle Accelerator
Although the centre of the Milky Way is obscured by gas and dust, you can see right through using wavelengths…
Podcast: Black Hole Questions Answered
Our episode on black holes generated many many questions from listeners. We dip into this bottomless pool of questions and…
All Was Quiet in the Galactic Centre
For a brief time in April 2006, the active region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the heart of the…
Light Echoes from Our Supermassive Black Hole
A new set of images from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory show the reflected X-ray emission from a small meal consumed…
First Triple Quasar Discovered
Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the Universe, beaming radiation across billions of light-years of space. Although they…
Even Dwarf Galaxies Have Supermassive Black Holes
To form a supermassive black hole, you'd think it takes a really large galaxy, like the Milky Way or Andromeda.…