black holes
Black holes might be the enigmas of the universe, but the contents of their jets aren't so extraordinary, according to a new study. For the first time ever, researchers have been able to locate normal, everyday matter in a black hole jet.
Scientists studying a massive explosion that erupted from our Milky Way's supermassive black hole two million years ago found that black holes can switch between power levels, going from maximum output to a proverbial rest state in a short period of time.
Despite never having actually seen one, scientists seem to learn something new everyday about black holes - today it's a new technique on how to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole.
There's something out there in the universe causing mysterious radio bursts, and the only thing scientists know about it is that it's from a time when the universe was half its current age.
Scientists NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory have discovered the largest number of black holes in a galaxy outside of our own, and they're all right next door, ready to collide with our galaxy in several billion years.
Extragalactic background light (EBL) is an incredibly important measurement for scientists trying to unravel the mysteries of our universe. An accurate documentation of EBL, however, has never been recorded - until now - and it aims to prove that all galaxies visible today are the reason for all EBL, ever.
In a rare glimpse into black hole behavior, the Herschel space observatory has caught our galaxy's supermassive black hole in the process of devouring a massive cloud of cooked gas.
How young is young? Most of our answers would be double-digit ages, but not in the cosmic scheme of things. NASA scientists are now cautiously stating that they might have found the youngest black hole in our galaxy, and it's only 1,000 years old.
Acclaimed British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and seven scientists have been awarded $3 million by a Russian billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner for their respective works regarding space and physics.
A group of international astronomers have discovered what is believed to be the biggest black hole ever identified.
An blast from a quasar is the most powerful ever recorded, and could help scientists better understand the link between quasars and large galaxies.
A recent X-Ray burst points to a previously-undiscovered stellar-mass black hole near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
A star rockets around our Milky Way's supermassive black hole at a speed of 6,600 miles per second, and can help us test some of Einstein's theories on how black holes curve space and time.
Scientists have found a pair of black hole twins that has them puzzled as to how it could even exist.
Scientists have used a telescope 2,000 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope to figure out a black hole's radius.
