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A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...
The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...
In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...
Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.
Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...
Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...
The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...
Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.
This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...