Back in 2021, an image went viral on Reddit, showing what appeared to be a “black hole” in the middle of the Pacific Ocean ...

In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

The new observations, taken with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), provide the most detailed, real-time look yet at how matter swirls around supermassive black holes. The findings were published ...

“The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real time,” she said. Meyer presented the findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, further exploring how ...

The point in the stream where its speed straddles the local speed of sound is the equivalent to a real black hole’s event horizon; phonons inside that boundary can never escape. Except ...

Over time, as other end products of stellar death were detected, namely, neutron stars seen as pulsars it became clear that black holes were real and ought to exist. The first detected black hole ...

"The launch of a black hole jet has never been observed before in real-time." Astronomers have, for the first time, watched the moment a feeding supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant ...

The tiniest members of the black hole family are, so far, theoretical. These small vortices of darkness may have swirled to life soon after the universe formed with the big bang, some 13.7 billion ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...