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Two Black Holes With Unusual Behaviour Disrupt Traditional Theories About Their Formation

Astronomers are watching two unusual black holes, each presenting phenomena that challenge current understanding of these cosmic giants. One, a…

1 year ago

NASA Hubble Space Telescope Finds a High Number of Black Holes in the Early Universe

An international team of researchers, led by scientists from Stockholm University's Department of Astronomy, has discovered a higher number of…

1 year ago

Dark matter could have helped make supermassive black holes in the early universe

Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not…

2 years ago

How do supermassive black holes get super massive?

By combining forefront X-ray observations with state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the buildup of galaxies over cosmic history, researchers have provided…

2 years ago

Medium and mighty: Intermediate-mass black holes can survive in globular clusters

Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of the University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes…

2 years ago

Sleeping supermassive black holes awakened briefly by shredded stars

A new investigation into an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, has revealed that these…

2 years ago

How electron spectroscopy measures exciton ‘holes’

Semiconductors are ubiquitous in modern technology, working to either enable or prevent the flow of electricity. In order to understand…

2 years ago

Study hints at the existence of the closest black holes to Earth in the Hyades star cluster

A paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hints at the existence of several black…

3 years ago