While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...

Quasars are distant galaxies ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive ...

For over 50 years, residents of the mostly Black, largely rural Lower Richland community have relied on the Hopkins Pool for ...

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Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

They suggested it might be a lone black hole. Shortly thereafter, a second research team challenged that result, suggesting it was more likely a neutron star. After continuing to study the object ...

Invisible Dark: Lone black holes passing through the galaxy should be a pretty common occurrence in the Milky Way, but they are notoriously hard to spot. According to recently published research ...

While he offers several explanations for what could cause the universe to rotate, he focuses mainly on the hypothesis that it is inside a gigantic black hole. Because black holes naturally rotate ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact ...

These efforts have helped researchers understand the behavior of black holes, the densest objects in the universe where even light cannot escape. Black holes are simpler than you might think.

Black holes are bounded by outer barriers called event horizons that prevent us from ever viewing their interiors or their hearts, singularities at which all known laws of physics collapse.