Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with supermassive black holes, surrounded by ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole ...

"The hunt for elusive intermediate-mass black holes continues." New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky ...

While black holes are perplexing at any size, some of the most mysterious are hypothetical primordial black holes, those that sprung into existence in the first second after the Big Bang and some ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests. Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

Analysis of the mysterious GW190521 signal The team applied this technique to the mysterious gravitational-wave signal GW190521, which involves a black hole that falls in the forbidden mass gap ...

In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forward an intriguing idea: Using the principles of quantum physics, he predicted that even though nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some ...

NASA researchers combined years of data and new imaging techniques to learn more about a "tipped over" black hole that is moving in an unexpected way. The black hole is located in a galaxy called ...

An artist's impression of a black hole in the early universe. Illustration: Jiarong Gu Gas: It’s what’s for dinner. At least that was the case for a black hole in the early universe ...

Black holes like this one may gorge for about five to 10 million years–then go dormant for 100 million. By Laura Baisas Posted on Dec 18, 2024 You’ve likely been there–snoozing on the couch ...