Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for heavy black holes, such as the ones detected via gravitational waves by ...
Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...
X-ray spectroscopy of gas deep in the potential well of the black hole, where the effects of strong gravity are important, allows us to probe the properties of the black hole itself. We numerically ...
This allowed the team to distinguish between the effect of an intermediate black hole and a cluster of stellar-mass black holes. The team determined that the latter was the most likely explanation ...
many of us will turn our minds to diets to offset the effects of our annual period of overindulgence. In February 2024, astronomers discovered a distant black hole that is the master of ...