Amalgamated Holdings Wilkinson Limited, owned by Wilko's founding family, says their lawyers believe they do not have any obligation to help fund the hole.
The Dutch Black Hole Consortium has launched an eight-language version of the BlackHoleFinder app that citizens all over the world can use to help identify newly formed black holes. Previously, the app was only available in Dutch and…
Small pairs of binary black holes could be used to play hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole binaries via gravitational waves carry the "baritone singing" of these cosmic titans.
An international team of astrophysicists, including researchers from the University of Zurich, has developed a novel method to detect pairs of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. This new approach involves analyzing…
In 1974, astronomers Bruce Balick and Robert L. Brown discovered a powerful radio source at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The source, Sagittarius A*, was subsequently revealed to be a supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a mass of…
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture views of the spiral galaxy NGC 4258. They spotted the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center actively eating cosmic material.
The impossibility of the kugelblitz: quantum effects forbid the formation of black holes from high concentrations of intense light. Researchers have concluded that kugelblitze, black...
Hard-up defence chiefs have sent a letter to suppliers giving them 36 hours to help with money-saving initiatives amid a race to cut costs due to a a £16.9billion 'black hole' in defence finances.
By examining a distant supermassive black hole, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a shocking link between jets and dust around these cosmic titans.
Primordial black holes are thought to have formed early in the evolution of the universe. None have been discovered yet but if they do exist and they may be plentiful, drifting almost invisibly through the cosmos, then they might account…
Bindu Rani is an astrophysicist from India, currently working as the Swift Observatory Guest Investigator Program Lead Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre. She studies the physical processes that happen in the vicinity of a…