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The early universe supercharged black hole growth

One of astronomy's longest standing puzzles has been understanding how black holes grew so large in such a short span…

2 months ago

Astronomers just watched a black hole twist spacetime

The universe has delivered a rare breakthrough for researchers chasing one of the hardest effects to catch in the night…

3 months ago

Rogue black hole shocks astronomers with record radio blast

For the first time, scientists have observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) -- a phenomenon in which a black hole…

5 months ago

This tiny spacecraft could race to a black hole and rewrite physics

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through…

7 months ago

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed

An international team of astronomers has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic simulations and artificial intelligence (AI) to…

9 months ago

Study reveals healing the ozone hole helps the Southern Ocean take up carbon

New research suggests that the negative effects of the ozone hole on the carbon uptake of the Southern Ocean are…

10 months ago

NASA Solves Black Hole Jet X-ray Mystery with IXPE’s Polarization Powers

The blazar BL Lacertae, a giant black hole with jets, facing the earth, have made scientists curious about how X-rays…

10 months ago

From boring to bursting: Giant black hole awakens

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of…

11 months ago

Gravitational Waves Reveal Black Hole Ancestry Through Spin Analysis

Ripples in spacetime, known as gravitational waves, are being used to determine the ancestry of black holes. These waves, first…

1 year ago

Astrophysicists capture astonishing images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87

The first-ever photo of a black hole rocked the world in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, published…

1 year ago