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 Rabie5/12/22 5:27PMComments (3)Save
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 Schultz5/12/22 9:16AMComments (44)Save
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 Hurler5/04/22 12:40PMComments (2)Save
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 Schultz5/03/22 11:35AMComments (41)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceHear the Sound of a Black Hole ‘Echo’The "Reverberation Machine" is helping scientists detect outbursts from black holes.ByIsaac Schultz5/02/22 4:10PMComments (2)Save
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 Schultz4/14/22 3:22PMComments (4)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceFunky Black Hole Is Spinning TiltedAstronomers say it's the most misaligned black hole they've ever seen.ByIsaac Schultz2/24/22 2:00PMComments (2)Save
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 Schultz1/25/22 5:30PMComments (3)Save
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 Schultz1/20/22 5:00PMComments (12)Save
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 Dvorsky12/14/21 11:50AMComments (4)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceBlue Flash in Space Known as 'The Cow' May Have Been a Black Hole Being BornWhatever the Cow is, it's packing a huge amount of mass into a tiny area.ByIsaac Schultz12/13/21 1:40PMComments (4)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstronomers Spot Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision CourseThe black holes are closer to Earth, and to each other, than any other known supermassive black hole pair.ByIsaac Schultz11/30/21 1:29PMComments (11)Save
SciencePhysicsSciencePhysicsBlack Holes Could Be Expanding Along With the UniverseThe accelerating expansion of the universe could be affecting the size of black holes, according to a team of…ByIsaac Schultz11/09/21 2:50PMComments (11)Save
SciencePhysicsSciencePhysicsNew Dark Matter Detector Records Unexplained High-Frequency SignalsA quartz acoustic wave resonator in Australia has made its first intriguing detections.ByIsaac Schultz8/26/21 11:30AMComments (19)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpacePhysicists See Light Echoing From Behind a Black Hole for the First TimeThe X-ray reverberations were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.ByIsaac Schultz7/28/21 3:40PMSave
SciencePhysicsSciencePhysicsNeutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimeter TallThe extreme density of these dead stars renders even their most startling features nearly flat.ByIsaac Schultz7/18/21 7:00PMComments (31)Save
SciencePhysicsSciencePhysicsMirrors That Detect Ripples in Space-Time Were Frozen to Near Absolute ZeroPhysicists shooting lasers underground were able to make an object nearly completely still.ByIsaac Schultz6/17/21 5:45PMComments (6)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstronomers Don't Know What Our Black Hole Ate, but They Definitely Saw It BelchIn May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the center of our galaxy. The event was caused by…ByIsaac Schultz4/21/21 5:42PMComments (9)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceNew Video Puts Iconic Image of Black Hole in a Cosmic ContextTwo years ago, astronomers acquired the first direct image of a black hole. A coordinated observation campaign of…ByGeorge Dvorsky4/16/21 3:50PMComments (1)Save
ScienceSpaceScienceSpacePhysicists Think They've Spotted a Very Rare Black HoleOn August 30, 1995, 10-billion-year-old light from the early universe finally hit the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory,…ByIsaac Schultz4/02/21 11:35AMComments (2)Save