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This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.
Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...
Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.
The idea was first cooked up in 1969 after a scientist named Roger Penrose noticed that a particle getting close to a ...
A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...
What a real black hole actually looks like ... we might be in for a surprise. The images, once we see them, will have been made possible by a planet-wide network of telescopes working in unison ...
Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.
Ansky, a once-dormant black hole, is now emitting powerful X-ray bursts, giving scientists a rare chance to study its activity in real time.
Thankfully, this version is just a safe toy model rather than using a real black hole in space, but as the physical principles are identical, studying it could help researchers better understand ...
A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!
Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.
Scientists have created the world’s first ‘black hole bomb’ and it could help experts better understand the space phenomenon.