Black Hole

Artistic depiction of the explosive interaction between the black hole and the massive nearby star (blue). As the separation between the star and the black hole decreased, the black hole’s intense gravity pulled gas and dust off of the star into a disk. Before the star was able to swallow…

Mysterious red galaxies from the universe’s dawn may trace back to rare, slow-spinning dark matter halos, creating extreme conditions that sparked rapid star or black hole growth. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Astronomers may have uncovered the secret behind the mysterious “little red dots” seen by the James Webb Space Telescope.…

An image showing a planet close to a black hole. (Image source: Kyraxys - Pixabay) Artificial intelligence managed to observe, for the first time, a star exploding during its encounter with a black hole. And this is a major advance for the field of astronomy and AI. Technological advances have…

In his new paper, Professor Jonathan Tan, an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia and the Chalmers University of Technology, proposes that Population III.1 supermassive stars were progenitors of supermassive black holes in the early Universe; high energy photons from the stars ionized the surrounding hydrogen gas far out into…

An artist's illustration of the black hole IGR J17091‑3624, showing material swirling around its inner region, called the corona, which emits bright X-rays detected by NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). (Image credit: NASA/Caltech-IPAC/Robert Hurt) A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.…

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An artist's impression of the events leading up to supernova SN 2023zkd, which likely occurred when a star attempted to swallow a nearby black hole. Here, the star's shape is stretched by the black hole's massive gravitational forces. (Image credit: Melissa Weiss/CfA) Scientists may have spotted a never-before-seen kind of…

A view of The Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, in which an ultramassive black hole appears to be lurking. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our sun — one of the…

Artificial intelligence has helped astronomers observe what may be the first known case of a star exploding while interacting with a black hole, a new study reports. (Image credit: Melissa Weiss/CfA) Astronomers have observed what may be the first known case of a massive star exploding while interacting with a…

An artist representation of the CAPERS-LRD-z9 galaxy (Image source: Erik Zumalt and The University of Texas at Austin) A team of astronomers has discovered a black hole that possibly dates back as early as 13.3 billion years ago — only 500 million years after the Big Bang. This discovery could…