Black Hole

The Milky Way’s galactic center (inset) is home to strange, death-defying stars that manage to survive close encounters with our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. New research reveals the unintended side effects of these daring flybys. (Image credit: ESA–C. Carreau) Black holes are often seen as cosmic monsters that swallow anything…

Christian Gralingen Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at astrophysicists for more than a century, but they may finally be on the brink of…

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The explosion (circled in red) was marked by repeated gamma-ray bursts over the course of a day. (Image credit: ESO/A. Levan, A. Martin-Carrillo et al.) Astronomers are scratching their heads after detecting a bizarre, long-lasting cosmic explosion unlike anything previously observed. The explosion was a series of repeated outbursts of…

In the vast, mysterious depths of the cosmos, a celestial giant is rewriting the rules of black hole physics. Meet SMSS J052915.80-435152.0, or J0529 for short, a black hole so luminous, so ferocious, and so far away that it’s challenging everything we thought we knew about the universe’s darkest entities.…

Molecular gas and X-ray emission around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s black hole Mark D. Gorski et al. (CC BY 4.0) We have found hot wind blasting out from our galaxy’s supermassive black hole for the first time, which could help us understand its mysterious inactivity. Compared to many other…

An illustration of a black hole star — a potentially new class of cosmic object with a feeding black hole at its center, and a dense cocoon of turbulent gas surrounding it like a star. (Image credit: MPIA/HdA/T. Müller/A. de Graaff) Astronomers have discovered a new object that could help…

The newly-discovered supermassive black hole sits in the center of a ‘little red dot’ galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9 and is seen just 500 million years after the Big Bang. An artist’s impression of CAPERS-LRD-z9. Image credit: Erik Zumalt, University of Texas at Austin. “When looking for black holes, this is about…

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Juan Alejandro Bernal/Shutterstock Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" books or those who enjoyed Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning movie versions of the story will be familiar with the Eye of Sauron. It was the name given to the way the primary antagonist of the story, Sauron, watched his…