A sleepy cosmic heavyweight has stirred intense curiosity among astronomers who hunt for clues to the earliest beginnings. They have uncovered evidence that points to a massive black hole that spent ...
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A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes. New research may have delivered bad ...
"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation in detail." NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found evidence that ...
For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.
Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes. Our fascination with black holes is pretty ...
An illustration of two black holes about to merge into one. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The finding about LID-568's feeding frenzy was far from the last word on early supermassive black hole ...
Quantum research supports Penrose’s theory that black holes obscure singularities, with the quantum Penrose inequality linking black hole entropy to space-time structure. Einstein’s theory of general ...
Years of data analysis and new imaging techniques revealed an unusual phenomenon in NGC 5084: a supermassive black hole with four plasma plumes forming an "X" shape, rotating at a 90-degree angle.
As matter spirals into a black hole, it creates an accretion disk, a swirling mass of particles that accelerate due to the gravitational energy loss. Some particles are expelled from the black ...
This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever ...