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A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.
Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...
The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an unusual environment, a supernova remnant tangled with dense material, or ...
They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.
We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...
The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.
“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...
The explosion of a massive star locked in a deadly orbit with a black hole has been discovered with the help of artificial ...
This week, astronomers have documented the occurrence of an unprecedented stellar death unlike anything seen before.
Thanks to 15 years of high-precision radio observation with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), scientists have realized ...
Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...
The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.