Black Hole

In Carlisle, a sleepy town in the heart of Pennsylvania Trump country, solar energy appears to have escaped the black hole of partisan politics. Or at least, that’s been the experience of Carlisle Area School District superintendent Colleen Friend, who has met little resistance spearheading a project to install a…

I just spent the last hour feeding a black hole instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing, work. And, no, that's not code for anything. I was literally feeding a black hole in the Steam Next Fest demo for a game called A Game About Feeding A…

The tiny wavering of laser beams has confirmed that black holes emit a massive, ringing energy as they collide. “It’s the most powerful event in the universe, because in a fifth of a second you pulverize the equivalent of three entire suns and turn them into energy,” says Max Isi,…

In this week's science news, we reported on the revival of greenhouse gas belching microbes from the permafrost, an optical illusion that appears to break special relativity, black hole M87* spewing a giant counter-jet, and blood tests that can detect cancer earlier than before. (Image credit: Hornof et al., 2025; CC…

But will this new conference be enough to persuade southerners to leave London? Image credit: Lewis Packwood The south tends to dominate things in the United Kingdom. London in particular tends to suck in all the jobs and opportunities like a black hole. And of course, the UK's premier games…

October 16, 2025 5 min read When a Galaxy Erupts, What We See Depends on How We See It Voracious supermassive black holes light up the cores of “active” galaxies across the universe. How we see them, however, is a matter of perspective By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings…

For the first time, scientists have observed a tidal disruption event (TDE) -- a phenomenon in which a black hole rips apart a passing star -- taking place outside the central region of a galaxy. This unusual discovery revealed powerful and rapidly changing radio waves, showing that supermassive black holes…

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, where a star gets too close to a black hole and is torn apart, its debris forming an accreting disk of material around the black hole. (Image credit: Ralf Crawford (STScI).) The death of a star at the hands of a massive…

A composite image of three infrared wavelengths captured by JWST showing the jet erupting out of Messier 87's supermassive black hole. (Image credit: Figure reproduced from: Röder J et al (2025), Astronomy & Astrophysics 701: L12. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202556577. © 2025 The Authors. Licensed under CC BY 4.0) New images from the…

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