Supermassive black hole caught devouring a star
In a distant galaxy, 2.7 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole, thousands of times more massive than our ...
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Cosmic wind blowing at 20,000 mph generated by black hole
Astronomers at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have come across a true astronomical oddity at the outskirts of the Milky Way, ...
Weird black hole is the sole survivor of its galaxy
Some black holes are just meant to survive, regardless of what they go through. This is probably the case with ...
Astronomers use massive objects in space as huge telescopes, find brightest galaxy via gravity lens
Whenever a massive object, with an equally massive gravitational pull, like black holes or galaxy clusters, falls between an observer, ...
Achieving the unbelievable: taking a picture of a black hole
Black Holes are the least understood entities, so far, in the Universe. However, if there's one thing scientists know for ...
Researchers find smallest known black hole
Researchers working at the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have probably discovered what can be described as the heart beat of ...
Half of supermassive black holes are surrounded by ‘dust clouds’
Black holes are perhaps the most fascinating and staggering objects in the known Universe, and we are just now beginning ...
Black hole caught eating a star
For the first time in human history we have witnessed a black hole in the act of 'eating' a star ...
Enormous water reservoir found in space is bigger than 140 trillion earth oceans
Astronomers have discovered the largest body of water so far known, a reservoir of water floating in space around a ...
Some black holes may be older than time itself
An intriguing hypothesis was brought up by Professor Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London and Professor Alan Coley ...
Dormant Supermassive black hole arises stronger than ever
It's still unclear if it was all about a stellar meal or if it was simply gas, or some other ...
Mysterious cosmic blast triggered by black hole
On the 28th of March the Swift telescope observed a peculiar gamma-ray blast in a distant corner of the visible ...
Black hole 5 times heavier than the Sun found in binary star system
The discovery of a new black hole is always an interesting event; this time, researchers from the Instituto de ...
Previously unseen huge structure located within our galaxy
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a previously undiscovered structure located in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...
Black holes not black at all?
Let's start with the beginning, shall we ? A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational ...
Get a glimpse of a black hole’s fury
Recently, a team of researchers (with the help of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) ...
The first witnessed birth of a black hole
The date of March 19, 2008 will be remembered as a very important day in astronomy and science; it's the ...