Supercomputer simulations on Frontera reveal the origins of ultra-massive black holes, the most massive objects thought to exist in the entire universe. Shown here is…
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This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected two pairs of supermassive black holes on collision courses in dwarf galaxies, which is the first evidence of such…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Recent simulations of two black holes colliding at close to the speed of…
Black holes are regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape their pull. They are formed from the…
The Galactic center at a distance of about 30000 light years. In the center of the image is the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (not…
Astronomers made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting a dormant stellar-mass black hole, the closest one to Earth yet found in the Milky Way. This first…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. New research has led to the development of a more sophisticated model for…
Artist’s concept of a growing black hole seen at the center of a faraway galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive…
Black hole and accretion disk. Credit: T. Müller (MPIA) The exciting finding promises numerous similar discoveries. Using data from ESA’s Gaia astrometry mission, astronomers have…
Artist’s impression of a supermassive black hole. Cosmological coupling allows black holes to grow in mass without consuming gas or stars. Credit: UH Manoa Searching…
Two interacting galaxies viewed from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team A study conducted by the University of Southampton has uncovered the process…
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…
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…