Paul M. Kuin, UCL Something highly unusual was picked up by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on June 16, 2018. The discovery of a…
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Black hole news from the scientific community including black hole research, black hole analysis, and black hole theories.
What Was the Glowing Object that Burst in the Sky this Summer? Well a team of scientists led by Northwestern University believe that they are getting closer…
David Blair, University of Western Australia Four new detections of gravitational waves have been announced at the Gravitational Waves Physics and Astronomy Workshop, at the University of…
A UK team has observed the first detection of matter falling into a supermassive black hole at a speed nearing 90,000 kilometers (56,000) miles per second, which…
Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos, Durham University Supermassive black holes, which lurk at the heart of most galaxies, are often described as “beasts” or “monsters”. But despite this, they…
Holger Baumgardt, The University of Queensland and Michael Drinkwater, The University of Queensland So far, all black holes discovered by astronomers fall into two broad categories: “stellar…
Encountering a black hole would be a frightening prospect for our planet. We know that these cosmic monsters ferociously devour any object that strays too close to…
Scientists have uncovered a rare relic from the early universe: the farthest known supermassive black hole. This matter-eating beast is 800 million times the mass of our…
A shooting black hole is a commonly used term for the scientific event known as a ‘black hole flare’. A black hole flare (or shooting black hole)…
Black holes are one of the most fascinating phenomena in space. They have a significant gravitational attraction and are extremely dense. Nothing can escape their grasp if…
You have probably heard about a black hole, but what about a super massive black hole? Compared to a general black hole, the mass contained in the…
Reported in the Astrophysical Journal, a new series of observations may change the way we think about black holes. Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), researchers studied…
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has helped to pinpoint a supermassive black hole that is believed to be on the move. Dubbed a ‘renegade’ black hole,…
The Event Horizon Telescope has just been switched on, and we’re about to get our first ever image of a black hole within this year. The Event…
Astrophysicists from the University of Birmingham have made significant progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational wave astrophysics – they mystery of how two black holes…
Astronomers have found evidence for a star that whips around a black hole about twice an hour. This may be the tightest orbital dance ever witnessed for…
The Event Horizon Telescope is set to begin operations in April with the goal of producing the most detailed look of a black hole to date. Sagittarius…
A new type of black hole has been discovered in the Milky Way known as a middle weight blackhole. It’s believed that super-massive black holes, the ones…
A giant black hole ripped apart a star and then gorged on its remains for about a decade, according to astronomers. This is more than ten times…
W44 is a supernova remnant 10,000 light years from our planet. Created by an exploding star, this majestic nebula is now the subject of research; a team…
Dark matter is a mysterious substance composing most of the material universe, now widely thought to be some form of massive exotic particle. An intriguing alternative view…
Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too…
The European Space Agency’s orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a “gravitational vortex” around a black hole. The discovery, aided by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic…
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behavior of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Combined data from NASA’s Chandra…
NuSTAR has recently identified two gas-enshrouded massive black holes that are located at the center of nearby galaxies. NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) can detect massive…
NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic…
Have you ever worried about being swallowed by a black hole, what about a mini blackhole? From the dawn of time, the universe has been teeming with…
Researchers are always looking into space for new data and new research suggests the universe is full of super-massive black holes. We already knew about black holes…
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole weighing in at 17 billion suns in a sparsely populated area of the universe. The observations were made by the…
Research from a team at the University of Southampton have spotted red flashes coming from a black hole 7,800 light-years from Earth. The flashes from the black hole (named V404…
New research suggests that five-dimensional black holes could break Einstein’s theory of general relativity. These 5D black holes don’t actually exist, they are a model. A theoretical…
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reflects on the detection of space-time ripples and waves as observed from colliding black holes. In this video Neil Tyson speaks at a Columbia…
NASA has recently spied a black-hole explosion from a galaxy far, far away. Seen above (and below) is the Pictor A Galaxy. Located roughly 500 million light…
Professor Stephen Hawking has recently published a new theory that details how black holes are able to store information. The paper attempts to solve a famous black…
GRAVITY is a new instrument that has been designed to observe regions near black holes. It is nearly up and running, and we can hope to see…
Nine radio telescopes have been positioned around the globe. They’re set to take the first ever picture of a black hole’s event horizon in 2017. The Event…
New research shows that black holes found at the center of galaxies may be as large as 50 billion suns. Professor Andrew King, from the University of…
Commonly held belief and scientific proof holds true that black holes suck matter in rather than spewing them out. But NASA has just found some curious evidence…