ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstronomers See Largest Explosion in Space YetA massive outburst rocked the cosmos nearly 8 billion years ago, but we're only just observing it.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMay 12, 2023Comments (10)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceGrasp the Size of a Black Hole in This New NASA AnimationThey're not called "supermassive" black holes for nothing, as a video from NASA illustrates.ByKevin HurlerPublishedMay 2, 2023Comments (61)
SciencePhysicsSciencePhysicsA Black Hole Star Could Be the Trippiest Object in SpaceThe theorized object warps spacetime like a black hole but still releases light.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedApril 25, 2023Comments (11)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceUpgraded View of 'Fuzzy' Supermassive Black Hole Is a Shade More MenacingMachine learning has boosted the resolution of an image produced by Event Horizon Telescope data captured six years…ByIsaac SchultzPublishedApril 13, 2023Comments (9)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceBent Light in Deep Space Reveals One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever DetectedA rare ‘ultramassive’ black hole, 30 billion times the mass of the Sun, is lurking in the cosmos.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMarch 28, 2023Comments (18)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceBright Flash Detected in February Was a Black Hole Jet Pointed Straight at EarthThe jet is from the most distant tidal disruption event yet observed.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 30, 2022Comments (15)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstrophysicists Discover Closest Black Hole to EarthThe dense, dormant object is hiding in plain sight.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 4, 2022Comments (15)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceX-Rays Reveal Superheated Gloop Surrounding a Black HoleThese are the IXPE mission’s first observations of a mass-accreting black hole.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedNovember 3, 2022Comments (6)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceBlack Hole Pukes Up Star Years After Eating ItThe black hole ejected stellar material in 2021, three years after pulling a star into its orbit.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedOctober 13, 2022Comments (24)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceA Hot Gas Bubble Is Swirling Around the Milky Way’s Black HoleThe bubble is spinning around the galactic core at mind-boggling speeds.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedSeptember 22, 2022Comments (11)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpace'We Have a Donut': Astronomers React to First Image of Milky Way's Black HoleAstro Twitter was filled with emotion and, of course, memes.ByPassant RabiePublishedMay 12, 2022Comments (3)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceBehold: The First Image of Our Galaxy's Central Black HoleIt's the second major view of a black hole to come out of the Event Horizon Telescope.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMay 12, 2022Comments (43)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceNASA Visualization Shows Black Holes Dancing with StarsIn these binary systems, a star is slowly eaten as it death-spirals around a black hole.ByKevin HurlerPublishedMay 4, 2022Comments (2)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceTeam Behind First Black Hole Image Set to Announce 'Groundbreaking' Milky Way DiscoveryThe Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has some mystery news to share next week.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMay 3, 2022Comments (41)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceHear the Sound of a Black Hole ‘Echo’The "Reverberation Machine" is helping scientists detect outbursts from black holes.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMay 2, 2022Comments (2)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceStrange Object Hidden in Dust May Be Precursor to a Supermassive Black HoleLurking in old observations from the Hubble Space Telescope is an intriguing object from the early universe.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedApril 14, 2022
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceFunky Black Hole Is Spinning TiltedAstronomers say it's the most misaligned black hole they've ever seen.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedFebruary 24, 2022Comments (2)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstrophysicists May Have Found a Rare Species of Black Hole in the Andromeda GalaxyThe researchers suspect a globular cluster contains an elusive intermediate-mass black hole.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 25, 2022Comments (3)
SciencePhysicsSciencePhysicsThere Are 40,000,000,000,000,000,000+ Black Holes in the Observable Universe, Says New EstimateThe team of astrophysicists found that 1% of ordinary matter may be stored away in the lightless spheres.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedJanuary 20, 2022Comments (12)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstronomers Capture Best Views Yet of Stars Moving Around Our Local Black HoleOne star is orbiting the black hole at 5,431 miles per second, which is 0.03% the speed of light.ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedDecember 14, 2021Comments (3)