Astronomers capture rare image of black hole plasma jet for the second time
Big or small, all black holes may be the same.
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Neutron Star and Black Hole’s Final Dance Observed for the First Time
You wait ages to spot a merger between a neutron star and a black hole and then the two come ...
Astronomers found the closest black hole to Earth. It’s called ‘The Unicorn’
The Unicorn is just three times the mass of the Sun, making it one of the smallest ever found.
Black Hole Seen Clearly in Historic New Direct Image
A new image of M87's black hole in polarized light gives us a spectacular view of the powerful spacetime event.
Scientists create a sonic black hole in the lab, confirm Stephen Hawking’s theory
This research may open the door for exciting new black hole physics.
Massive Black Hole Could Challenge Stellar Evolution Theories
With a mass of 21 times that of the sun, the black hole of Cygnus X-1 challenges theories of stellar ...
Astronomers found the oldest supermassive black hole — and they were puzzled by it
The giant black hole formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang.
NASA says a gargantuan supermassive black hole is somehow missing
The hunt is on for black hole with up 100 billion solar masses that is nowhere to be found.
Scientists turn the first picture of a black hole into a movie
The historic image was joined by previous observations of the black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy.
Gravitational waves reveal largest black hole merger and the first intermediate-mass black hole
The black hole is the first object of its kind with a mass above 100 solar masses but below a ...
Physicists may have found a way to create traversable wormholes
But they would be impossible to create with today's technology.
Fastest-growing black hole in the universe eats the equivalent of one sun per day
A Sun a day keeps dark matter away?
Astronomers bewildered by massive star disappearing under their eyes
The star may have directly collapsed as a black hole, without going supernova -- which is almost unprecedented.
ESO astronomers find the closest black hole to Earth
The stars in the same triple system as the black hole are so close they can be seen with the ...
There may be a second black hole at the center of our galaxy
Astronomers think that the Milky Way's supermassive black hole may have a companion -- and that could teach us more ...
Astronomers find the most massive black hole in the local universe
A dim patch in an otherwise bright galaxy is the epicenter of a supermassive black hole whose mass is 40 ...
Could wormholes actually exist?
A new study describes a technique that could be used to find wormholes.
Millions of black holes are lurking in the Milky Way. Here’s how to spot them
Let's find the missing black holes!
Sonic black hole confirms Hawking radiation theory
A novel quantum simulator offers unique insights about the 'guts' of a black hole.
The best black hole photo memes the internet has to offer
Get sucked into the joyous celebration of the black hole image.