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,…
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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…
Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, have uncovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. It is also the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass…
An illustration of a mass-quantized black hole, created using NightCafe Creator AI. Credit: University of Queensland Bizarre quantum properties of black holes – including their…
An artist’s impression of two colliding black holes. Researchers have identified a peculiar twisting motion in the orbits of two colliding black holes, an exotic…
Split view of the visible Milky Way galaxy versus its galactic underworld. Credit: University of Sydney A new study creates the first map of our…
Artist’s illustration of tidal disruption event AT2019dsg where a supermassive black hole spaghettifies and gobbles down a star. Some of the material is not consumed…
Astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers have spotted signs of…
The emission from M87 has now been resolved into a bright, thin ring (orange colormap), arising from the infinite sequence of additional images of the…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. University of ChicagoFounded in 1890, the University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C,…