Black Hole

After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to lurk in Omega Centauri, the most massive stellar system in the Milky Way found so far, with a stellar mass of 3.6 million solar masses. Whitaker et al. found Omega Centauri’s first…

(Main) An illustration of a feeding supermassive black hole (Inset) the heart of the galaxy NGC4696 in a combined view from the JWST and Hubble. (Image credit: Robert Lea/ NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/J. Hlavacek-Larrondo, et al. 2026) Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have been given a glimpse of the…

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, are giving astronomers their clearest look yet at how supermassive black holes obtain the gas they need to grow. The images reveal long strands of gas linking a galaxy's hot outer atmosphere to a rapidly rotating disk surrounding its central…

Illustration of the black hole at the center of the galaxy SDSS J110546.07+145202.4. The luminous disk of matter surrounds the event horizon, while a concentrated jet of particles and radiation is ejected into space. This newly launched jet is revealed by intense radio radiation that has been emanating from the…

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Think of black holes as bells from the cosmos. When they collide and coalesce, the resulting black hole “rings” like a bell, with vibrations known as quasinormal modes (gravitational-wave frequencies that decay in amplitude during the ‘ringdown’ phase). These are not just ghostly echoes. They are unambiguous probes of black…

Physicists have coaxed a black hole's most famous glow out of a strand of optical fiber and, for the first time, watched that light react back on the simulated black hole that produced it. The result gives researchers a rare, hands-on look at Hawking radiation ‪—‬ the faint thermal emission…

New images of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4696 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal gas filaments funneling material into a spinning disk around a supermassive black hole 800 light-years across, solving a decades-old puzzle of how these giants keep growing. This Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy…

Astronomers used 20-plus years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope and recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope to find Omega Centauri's first stellar-mass black hole, which has a visible star companion that is shown in greater detail. (Image credit: ESA, NASA, Maximilian Häberle (MPIA), Joseph DePasquale (STScI))…

Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they had been unable to spot any By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Omega Centauri. Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Scientists have detected a small black…