Black Holes
Gravitational Lenses Could Pin Down Black Hole Mergers with Unprecedented Accuracy
Gravitational wave astronomy has been one of the hottest new types of astronomy ever since the LIGO consortium officially detected…
Astronomers Will Get Gravitational Wave Alerts Within 30 Seconds
Any event in the cosmos generates gravitational waves, the bigger the event, the more disturbance. Events where black holes and…
The Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Seen Came from a Collapsing Star
After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on…
A Supermassive Black Hole with a Case of the Hiccups
Can binary black holes, two black holes orbiting each other, influence their respective behaviors? This is what a recent study…
New View Reveals Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole
Fresh imagery from the Event Horizon Telescope traces the lines of powerful magnetic fields spiraling out from the edge of…
Powerful Jets From a Black Hole are Spawning Star Clusters
Supermassive black holes are messy feeders, and when they're gorging on too much material, they can hurl high-energy jets into…
Is this the Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star?
About 40,000 light-years away, a rapidly spinning object has a companion that's confounding astronomers. It's heavier than the heaviest neutron…
What Could a Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Do?
Telescopes have come a long way in a little over four hundred years! It was 1608 that Dutch spectacle maker…
Everything in the Universe Fits in This One Graph. Even the Impossible Stuff
The Universe has physical constants, such as the force of gravity that define everything. If these constants were any different,…
The Early Universe Should Be Awash in Active Galaxies, but JWST Isn't Finding Them
Astronomers have found supermassive black holes in the centers of most galaxies. To get the black holes we see today,…