U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
Primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes theorized to have formed shortly after the Big Bang. Compared to black holes ...
"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...
Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind cosmic event.
The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...
In October 2024 the network detected a clear signal that pointed back to a merger that occurred 700 million light-years away. The progenitor black holes were 20 and 6 solar masses and the larger ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...
The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...
Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...
This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that ...