Mysterious cosmic explosion called ‘The Cow’ might’ve finally been explained
Back in 2018, a massive cosmic explosion made its way to earth as a bright flash of blue. The flash was quickly nicknamed AT2018cow, or …
Black Hole
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole has sprung a leak
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may not be sleeping, after all. Previously, scientists believed that the supermassive black hole at …
Scientists spot a star turning into spaghetti near a black hole
A distant black hole is sucking up a star that got a little too close for comfort. The event was detected by a pair of …
Scientists finally spotted the rarest type of black hole
Scientists used gravitational-wave data to detect the merger of two smaller black holes and the formation of a larger one. The larger black hole is …
A grapefruit-sized black hole may be hiding in our solar system
An unseen object appears to be interacting with other objects along the edge of our solar system, and researchers don’t know exactly what it is. …
We might’ve just learned what happens when two black holes collide in space
Researchers examined a bright flash they detected at a location thought to be the home of a black hole. The scientists provide evidence that the …
A black hole just ran into something scientists can’t explain
A black hole smacked into something that scientists can’t explain, a new study reveals. The object sits between the known mass limits of neutron stars …
Why is this black hole’s heart “beating” so regularly?
Astronomers have rediscovered the heartbeat of a black hole that was first detected back in 2007. The pulsing wave of energy is thought to be …
Why is our galaxy’s black hole blinking at us?
The black hole at the center of our galaxy is blinking at us, and scientists think they know why. In a new researcher paper, astronomers …
A black hole has been hiding surprisingly close to Earth
A black hole was discovered lurking quietly in a system just 1,000 light-years from Earth. The black hole, which is part of the system called …
Watch a black hole violently fire a jet of material into space
Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope project have released images of a distant quasar with its black hole spewing material into space. The images were …
A black hole ‘burp’ devastated a distant galaxy cluster
A black hole carved a hole right through the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is located some 390 million light years from Earth. Astronomers believe the …
Students stumble upon new black hole in NASA asteroid probe data
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has spent the majority of its life studying the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It was tasked with traveling to the asteroid, orbiting it, …
The most massive explosion since the Big Bang was just spotted in deep space
As far as astronomers know, the Big Bang is why we’re all here. The massive explosion sent all the matter we see in the universe …
Surprising discovery suggests the Milky Way has more than one black hole
Studying a galaxy from the inside can be a tricky thing, but astronomers have still managed to learn a great deal about our own Milky …
Astronomers just spotted a black hole more massive than any in our cosmic neighborhood
Of all the objects astronomers have observed in space over centuries of scientific investigation, black holes are one of the most bizarre and mysterious. Objects …
Astronomers just spotted a black hole so huge it technically shouldn’t exist
Astronomers in China have discovered something that technically shouldn’t even exist, at least according to what humans understand about space, black holes, and physics. Peering …
Is there a black hole hiding right here in our solar system?
Way out on the edge of our solar system something big is lurking that has yet to be identified. Astronomers know it’s there because they …
NASA spots distant star being torn apart by a hungry black hole
Black holes are devastatingly powerful forces of nature, and nothing demonstrates their incredible might quite like seeing one tear apart a star. Recently, NASA’s sky-scanning …
This black hole animation from NASA is glorious
Scientists may know more about black holes today than ever before, but that doesn’t make them any easier to see. By their very nature, black …
Astronomers just found a black hole so huge it makes our galaxy’s black hole look like a baby
At the heart of our home galaxy is a supermassive black hole that gobbles up anything that gets too close. It’s huge, with a mass …
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole just produced a brilliant, mysterious flash
Like many galaxies, our own Milky Way is believed to revolve around a supermassive black hole. The location of the black hole, a feature known …
Hubble spots black hole surrounded by material that shouldn’t be there
The Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by NASA and the ESA, is fantastic for spotting objects residing in the distant reaches of space. Black …
Astronomers discover massive ring of gas circling our black hole
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is somewhere you wouldn’t want to be. We have it pretty easy here on Earth, orbiting our star …
Why didn’t scientists photograph the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
After years of work and a whole lot of hype, researchers working with the Event Horizon Telescope project finally unveiled the very first image ever …
Here is the first-ever photo of a black hole
As we expected, the international collaboration of scientists involved in the Event Horizon Telescope project have made good on their promise to provide the first-ever …
Watch scientists reveal the first-ever image of a black hole live
Well, the day is finally here. After centuries of wondering and developing technology capable of actually spotting a black hole, the international group of researchers …
We may be just days away from seeing a black hole for the first time ever
For how much astronomers know about black holes — it’s a lot, trust me — it’s a bit of a shock that mankind has never …
We’re probably about to see the first-ever photograph of a black hole
Black holes are so strange that they’re kind of hard to wrap your brain around. They’re super-dense objects with gravitational pull so strong that nothing …
Astronomers spot black hole spinning unbelievably fast as it swallows up a star
Black holes are some of the most interesting features of our universe, but they’re also not very well understood. Studying distant black holes in any …
