The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Then something unexpected happened ... light and other radiation can no longer escape. A small black hole would plunge straight into the event horizon, while a normal star would quickly be ...

As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively ... astronomers have recorded it doing something we've never seen before. On 6 April 2024, the black hole ...

By unleashing powerful jets, or outbursts, the black holes kickstart a process to cool hot gas and form warm filaments that allow for the – let's say – now-edible gas to flow back into the ...

A recent survey of supermassive black holes reveals that their spin rates reveal something about their formation ... how matter behaves as it falls into the black hole. The results of the SDSS ...

For Masterson, the next step was simple: “I calculated how long it’s going ... to a black hole; why wasn’t this one falling in? Gravity should have ensured its doom—unless something ...

Some of these would later collapse under gravity into galaxies and ... If such small black holes make up all dark matter we’re going to need a lot of them. If PBHs are at the bottom ...

"Then we noticed something that ... While the black hole's gravity may pull the white dwarf inward, the star is also shedding part of its outer layer into the black hole. This shedding acts ...

“And that’s partly wishful thinking because I prefer them to exist, but it’s something that ... studying primordial black holes are gaining a ton of insights into the physics of the ...