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Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...
Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...
Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.
In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...
The bold question-askers at What If explore why having a black hole in our Solar System would be a catastrophic scenario.
A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...
A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...
"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.