Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA)…
Astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy analyzed the vibrations of a distant red giant star now orbiting a quiet black hole in the Gaia BH2 system. Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the team…
The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy GHZ2, revealing how the first black holes grew just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Scientists say that there could be small black holes lurking in our solar system that could pass right through you at any time. But what would happen to your body if one did?
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away. Instead of exploding as a supernova, the star was torn apart, creating the brightest and most distant black hole…
Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA…
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These measurements reveal details about the chaotic, superheated material swirling around black holes. The team also captured…
Astronomers have discovered something remarkable — a supermassive black hole that is growing faster than expected. The black hole’s rapid growth defied what was previously known of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies.
An overnight update to Counter-Strike 2 erased billions of dollars in valuable digital assets that players had accumulated. The law gives them almost no recourse.
An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made measurements to better understand how matter falls into black holes and how enormous amounts of energy and light are released…