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Astronomers catch black holes 'cooking' their own meals in bizarre, endless feeding cycleBlack holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a new study. It suggests many such cosmic beasts effectively "cook" their own meals.
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Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than expected.
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'Impossible' black holes detected by James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation — if this ultra-rare form of matter existsObservations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too big, too fast. New research points to a strange form of dark matter as a possible culprit.
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Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holesblack-holes -
Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied."
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Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around itScientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence
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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions moreBlack holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time.
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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at usThe newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.
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NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime sceneWhat knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are trying to solve.
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