The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

The new result can help ... Black Hole Pairs May Unveil New Particles Sep. 17, 2024 — In a new paper, physicists argue that close observations of merging black hole pairs may unveil information ...

Look at the image above. Looks like you’re falling into it, doesn’t it? Like the darkness is approaching, threatening to ...

"We have studied the giant black holes found at the centers of galaxies, from today to as far back as 7 billion years ago," said Fries, a primary author of a paper about this work. The mapping ...

confirming the presence of a gravitational wave background in the universe. This unexpected phenomenon, detected with unprecedented precision, suggests that supermassive black hole collisions may ...

"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the ...

“We have studied the giant black holes found at the centers of galaxies, from today to as far back as seven billion years ago,” said Fries, a primary author of a paper about this wor ...

Recent research suggests that supermassive black holes' spin rates, linked to their formation history, indicate growth primarily through steady matter consumption rather than galaxy mergers. In order ...

A new paper published Dec. 30, 2024 in the Astrophysical Journal estimates that around 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden in this way. This is a dramatic increase from the previous ...

The jets extending from these blazars can extend millions of light-years in length. Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. In pursuit of ...

This evidence is, however, indirect and comes from the collective signal of many distant binaries that effectively create background noise. The proposed method to detect individual supermassive black ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of supermassive black holes reveals that their spin rates reveal something ...