Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of…
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Caption: An MIT study finds that, for now, the catalog of known black hole binaries does not reveal anything fundamental about how black holes form.…
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look deep into the heart of the pair of merging galaxies known as UGC 4211 discovered…
Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI)…
Artist’s impression of a collection of black holes in the core of a star cluster. Credit: ESA/Hubble, N. Bartmann Since 2015, the LIGOThe Laser Interferometer…
Illustration of a tidal disruption event (TDE). Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology Astronomers…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser A…
An artist’s impression of two black holes that are about to collide. New observations and analysis reveal two Goliath black holes just 750 light-years apart…
This animation is an artist’s impression of how the material of a star fell towards the black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy,…
An artist’s impression of a gamma-ray burst powered by a neutron star. Credit: Nuria Jordana-Mitjans According to recent research from the University of Bath in…
An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system, with the black hole appearing in the center and its companion star on the left. New measurements…
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of…
Astrophysicists have devised a new way to verify the existence of the supermassive black hole Leo I*. A behemoth black holeA black hole is a…
How it works: Using trial and error, machine learning tests many different pairings of simulated galaxies and black holes created using different rules, and then…
Illustration of a tidal disruption event (TDE). Credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology Rare…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study,…
Simulated black hole jets spin and sweep past in this animation. The jets, which contain particles moving near the speed of light, appear in orange,…
Artist’s conception of Cygnus A, surrounded by the torus of dust and debris with jets launching from its center. Magnetic fields are illustrated trapping dust…
An artist’s illustration of a black hole. The black hole is over 1 billion light-years away. A team of astronomers has found a unique black…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Scientists hope…