The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.
The smallest are stellar black holes, which form after a giant star ... At this point, black holes start to get pretty big compared to Earth, but it's still nothing when you consider the sheer ...
Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the ... can no longer escape. A small black hole would plunge straight into ...
Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...
Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...
More information: De-Chang Dai et al, Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth, Physics of the Dark Universe (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2024.101662 ...
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth. This cosmic giant ... was 100 million years younger. This small age gap is significant as ...
The galaxy is located about 270 million light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). Most galaxies have a large black hole at ...