Latest about Black Holes
An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glare
A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.
New Horizon Prize in Physics awarded to scientists chasing mysterious black hole photon spheres
Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the physics prize for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity.
The closest black holes to Earth may be lurking in a star cluster visible to the naked eye
Astronomers found evidence of multiple stellar-mass black holes lurking in the nearby Hyades cluster, just 150 light-years from Earth.
For the 1st time, scientists accidentally measure the swirling ring around a black hole
Researchers accidentally stumbled on a way to measure the size of the accretion disks of dust, gas and plasma that surround black holes.
Do black holes really suck in matter?
Black holes can swallow matter, and they grow by accreting gas, dust and even the occasional star. But are they the vacuum-mouthed monsters they are often presented to be?
Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why
Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable 'burping' bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.
James Webb telescope reveals the universe may have far fewer active black holes than we thought
Almost every galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its center. So why is it so hard to find young black holes actively feeding?
'Twisty' new theory of gravity says information can escape black holes after all
Einstein's theory of relativity say black holes are 'bald', but a new tweak to his research may give the mysterious objects their long-sought 'hair.'
