Black Hole

Rachel Reeves faced fresh humiliation after Britain’s growth prospects were downgraded and unemployment soared to a four year high. Critics accused the Chancellor of “killing growth and crushing jobs” as the International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for UK growth next year. Kemi Badenoch said Labour’s economic failures are “making…

Scientists have designed a compact new detector capable of sensing gravitational waves in a long-missing frequency range, potentially revealing cosmic events never before observed. Using precision optical cavities and atomic clock technology, researchers at the Universities of Birmingham and Sussex aim to detect the elusive milli-Hertz waves produced by black…

Space Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as the star is consumed from within By Jonathan O’Callaghan Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email This orange dot is a gamma-ray burst that seems…

Chancellor under pressure to balance the books in autumn statement as £50bn black hole looms 07:47, Mon, Oct 13, 2025 Updated: 07:47, Mon, Oct 13, 2025 The Chancellor is due to set out her Budget on November 26 (Image: Getty) Rachel Reeves could impose a "one-off" wealth tax in her…

Using data from the RadioAstron satellite, astronomers have produced a radio image of two supermassive black holes at the center of the distant quasar OJ 287, where the secondary black hole is in a 12-year orbit around the primary. This RadioAstron map two supermassive black holes at the center of…

Astronomers have discovered an enormous double-ringed radio structure billions of light-years away. The find challenges theories of black hole activity and hints that galactic winds may shape the universe’s rarest cosmic rings. The Discovery of the Most Distant ORC Astronomers have identified the most distant and powerful “odd radio circle”…

An artist's illustration of two black holes. (Image credit: AiVreaSaStii / pixabay) For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs. Spotted through the faint fluctuations of radio light captured by telescopes both on…

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power. Using cutting-edge simulations, scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt revealed that not just magnetic fields, but a process called magnetic…

Some theorists think unusual event could be a black hole devouring a star from within...Read More

Could this be an illustration of the entire universe? Arlume / Alamy The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can  sign…