Black Hole
New Image of a Black Hole's Powerful Jets Is Challenging Scientists' Theories
The Event Horizon Telescope has taken the best images yet of a radiant jet shooting out of the nearest active galaxy to the Milky Way.
Scientists Think They Found a 'Unicorn' Black Hole Close to Earth
Located 1,500 light years away, the 'Unicorn' is the closest known black hole and is also unusually small.
Scientists Just Found a ‘Restless’ Supermassive Black Hole Wandering in Space
We’ve always thought of supermassive black holes as stationary objects sitting tight while everything swirls around them. Until now.
Supermassive Black Holes Might Really Be 'Traversable' Wormholes, Astrophysicists Suggest
“The wormholes we are considering are traversable wormholes, so theoretically spacecraft can travel through them,” said the lead author of a new study.
The First Black Hole Ever Seen by Humans is Glittering in Space
M87*, the first black hole ever to be directly imaged, has a newly-identified feature: it glitters and wobbles, according to new research.
Scientists Detected a New Kind of Black Hole Being Born in a Bizarre Event
A merger with a black hole possessing an unexplained 'forbidden mass' created the first conclusive example of an intermediate black hole in the most massive merger ever detected using ripples in spacetime.
The Fastest-Growing Black Hole Gobbles Up One Sun a Day
New research just found incredible information on the hungriest black hole in the Universe.
Future Humans Can Mine Black Holes for Energy by Feeding Them, Experiment Suggests
A famed physicist dreamed decades ago that future humans, or aliens, could generate energy from black holes. Now, physicists have experimentally shown that it could one day be possible.
Scientists Just Discovered a Mysterious Object in Space That Could Change What We Know About Black Holes
It falls right in the puzzling “mass gap” where no other object has been found yet.
A Star Is Orbiting our Galaxy's Black Hole in a Stunning Pattern
In yet another win for Albert Einstein’s theories, scientists report the first ever detection of “Schwarzschild precession” around a black hole.
Scientists Think They’ve Found a New Type of Star-Destroying Black Hole
A new analysis of Hubble data has revealed the best candidate yet for a type of black hole that nobody has seen yet, and it gave itself away by tearing a star apart.
Scientists See Trippy Quadrupled Black Hole While Peering Through a Galaxy
Using another galaxy as a telescope created a trippy quadrupling effect in a rare image of an exploding black hole from the early universe.