Black Hole

January 30, 2026 1 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and…

A Big Catch Awaits in Black Hole Fishing Playsaurus has partnered with SDG Games to bring the wonderfully strange incremental title Black Hole Fishing to a wider audience on Steam. Playsaurus, best known for genre-defining idle hits like Clicker Heroes and Mr. Mine, will publish the game, helping introduce its…

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun. Imagine if it had been something much bigger and faster: a black hole travelling at…

This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It spans just about 60 light-years across, which is a veritable pinprick on the entire sky. The underlying image contains lower-, medium-, and higher-energy X-rays in red, green, and blue respectively.…

Ryan Wills for New Scientist/Adobe Stock Rushing to get to work in the morning, we grab our coat, bag and keys and – invariably – steal a glance at the clock to check that we are running on time. The passing of time is so integral to our day-to-day lives…

This artist’s rendering illustrates a precessing jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV 340a. (Image credit: W. M. Keck Observatory / Adam Makarenko) It's a well-known fact that supermassive black holes (SMBH) play a vital role in the evolution of galaxies. Their powerful gravity…

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously believed to be mostly unattainable. In 2023, astronomers recorded a dramatic cosmic event. Two unusually large black holes collided about 7 billion…

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Owen Gildersleeve Imagine you’re standing in front of a closed door. Behind it is a teenager’s bedroom, and your task is to rate how messy it is on a scale of 1 to 10. But here’s the twist: you can’t open the door – and you don’t even know what…