Black Hole
Scientists Spot Black Hole Energy Beam as Bright as 1,000 Trillion Suns Pointed at Earth
So-called relativistic jets of energetic particles are stunning, destructive spectacles, and this one was "unprecedented."
NASA Has Captured ‘Actual Sound’ in Space and It’s Honestly Terrifying
In space, no one can hear you scream—until now.
This Is the First-Ever Image of the Supermassive Black Hole at Our Galaxy’s Center
“You are the first to see our image of the black hole in the center of our galaxy—as close as it gets,” said one of the scientists who led the imaging mission.
Scientists Seek Origin of Mysterious Gigantic Bubble Structures In Our Galaxy
The Milky Way recently blew a gasket, according to a space instrument that was recently switched off over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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.