Black Holes
The Lowest Mass Black Hole has Been Found, only 3.3 Times the Mass of the Sun
A team of astronomers recently discovered the smallest black hole to date, which indicates that there may be far more…
New Technique for Estimating the Mass of a Black Hole
A Russian-led team of astronomers has developed a method for estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole by looking…
Astronomers Have Found a Place With Three Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Around Each Other
Astronomers have spotted three supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of three colliding galaxies a billion light years away…
The Most Massive Neutron Star has been Found. It’s ALMOST the Most Massive Neutron Star That’s Even Possible
Neutron stars are the end-state of massive stars that have spent their fuel and exploded as supernovae. There's an upper…
Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours
Even though the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a monster, it's still rather quiet. Called…
A Monster Black Hole has been Found with 40 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun
If contemplating the vast size of astronomical objects makes you feel rather puny and insignificant, then this new discovery will…
Astronomers See Evidence of Supermassive Black Holes Forming Directly in the Early Universe
Super-Massive Black Holes (SMBH) are hard to explain. These gargantuan singularities are thought to be at the center of every…
Black Hole Simulation Solves a Mystery About Their Accretion Disks
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists have validated an age-old theory about how accretion disks behave.
Is Dark Matter Made of Axions? Black Holes May Reveal the Answer
What is dark matter made of? It's one of the most perplexing questions of modern astronomy. We know that dark…
It Looks Like LIGO/Virgo Have Detected a Black Hole Eating a Neutron Star. For the First Time Ever
A new signal detected by LIGO/Virgo may be the so-called 'holy grail' of astrophysics: the merger of a neutron star…