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Scientists use XRISM spacecraft to predict fate of matter around monster supermassive black hole
By Robert Lea published
The spacecraft XRISM has examined light from a distant galaxy that houses a supermassive black hole to determine the fate of matter in the void's gravitational thrall.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will hunt for tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang
By Robert Lea published
Primordial black holes left over from the Big Bang and no wider than a dime could be a prime target for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope after it launches in 2026.
Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animation (video)
By Robert Lea published
Black hole week is on, and to celebrate NASA is taking us on a way to plunge past the event horizon of a supermassive black hole and on a time-bending trip around the same cosmic titan.
James Webb Space Telescope suggests supermassive black holes grew from heavy cosmic 'seeds'
By Robert Lea published
The mystery of how early universe supermassive black holes grew so quickly may be solved, with the James Webb Space Telescope finding the first evidence of "heavy seeds."
See this galaxy's bright center? It's home to a voracious supermassive black hole
By Stefanie Waldek published
To launch Black Hole Week, NASA released this new Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 4951.
Black hole collision 'alerts' could notify astronomers within 30 seconds of detection
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers will be alerted to gravitational waves faster than ever before as LIGO and other detectors "listen" to a universal symphony.
'Traffic jams' in the hearts of galaxies can force black holes to collide
By Robert Lea published
Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.
Scientists use AI to reconstruct energetic flare blasted from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
By Robert Lea published
Combining AI and observations of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, scientists have reconstructed a 3D video of Sagittarius A* and its environment.
Record breaker! Milky Way's most monstrous stellar-mass black hole is sleeping giant lurking close to Earth (Video)
By Robert Lea last updated
Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar-born black hole ever seen in the Milky Way, and it lies relatively close to Earth.
Monster black hole seen feeding on nearby matter just 1 billion years after Big Bang (photos)
By Robert Lea published
The robotic telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project have observed a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole 3 billion times as massive as the sun at the very edge of the universe
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