Black Hole

A newly-discovered black hole, claimed to be the oldest ever found, is eating up material from an ancient galaxy at an unprecedented rate. Researchers, led by an academic from the University of Cambridge, claim to have discovered a black hole...

A gigantic black hole from the early days of the universe has set a new record for being the first we've ever observed. Scientists identified it in a galaxy called UHZ1 only 470 million years after the Big Bang when...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have now determined the precise size of the swirling ring around a supermassive black hole. This unexpected revelation holds the potential to enhance our understanding of how these enormous cosmic entities grow and how...

A fresh perspective on Einstein's theory of relativity could revolutionize our understanding of black holes. Astrophysics has long struggled with the concept that "black holes have no hair," meaning they are defined by just three characteristics: mass, electric charge, and...

Scientists at MIT just launched a new search for the waves of the Big Bang rippling through the universe. The plan is for a huge, sensitive, new-generation gravitational-wave detector. Over the following three years, the National Science Foundation will...

New observations from South Africa's MeerKAT telescope have unveiled a new discovery of numerous long strands of gas, stretching for 5 to 10 light-years, reaching out from the central black hole in our galaxy. The Space explains these strands or...

Astronomers have disclosed how Nasa's satellites detected the strongest gamma-ray explosion ever seen in space. The gamma-ray outburst happened far away from our planet, approximately two billion light-years away, and brightened much of the galaxy. Photographs of this exceptional and...

A supermassive, distant black hole was observed by astronomers eating up a star and then blasting its remains from the catastrophe directly toward Earth. According to astronomers, the vicious destruction of the star, called a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE), was...

Astronomers observed the most powerful explosion ever recorded in the universe, which gave birth to a black hole. They did so using the Gemini South telescope in Chile operated by NSF's NOIRLab. Dubbed Gamma-Ray Burst GRB221009A, this record-shattering the observed...

As part of the most extreme phenomena in the universe, black hole crashes evident in deep space as two massive, invisible bodies spiral toward each other has left scientists puzzled and pondering about the phenomenon. During black hole collisions, they...