Black Hole

Journalist Katie Couric recently shared her experience of sudden memory loss that persisted for several hours during a recent trip to Colorado. Doctors diagnosed the episode as transient global amnesia, a temporary condition that stops new memories from forming for a short period of time. "It was Saturday, June 27,…

Quasars rank among the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe. They are fueled by supermassive black holes that consume surrounding material at the centers of galaxies, producing so much energy that they can be seen across billions of light years. Now, an international team of researchers has identified…

The accretion disk of NGC 4151 is shown blue, immediately surrounding the galaxy’s central black hole. Scientists, including University of Michigan astronomers, are showing how winds or outflows from the accretion disk reshape its host galaxy. The winds are shown as wispy light blue lines blowing across the more orange…

A quasar emits exceptional amounts of energy generated by matter falling into a supermassive black hole, as seen in this illustration released on July 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: NASA A quasar — among the universe's most luminous and energetic objects — is a supermassive black hole caught in the…

Esports betting could be facing a huge tax hike in West Virginia. Image Credit: Riot Games For a long time, the running joke in the gaming world was that esports is just a massive, incredibly expensive black hole for cash. Publishers threw millions of dollars at giant stadiums, flashy trophy…

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe's earliest chapter, including the two oldest ever found. The discoveries, described July 6 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics , more than double the number of known quasars from that primordial era…

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron This artist’s concept shows a quasar, which is a galaxy with large quantities of material spiralling into its central supermassive black…

Scientists have found evidence that gravitational waves from a spectacular black hole collision carry signals from the very edge of the newly formed black hole. If confirmed by future observations, the discovery could provide an entirely new way to investigate what happens in the immediate vicinity of a black hole…

An illustration of a black hole at the heart of a dust cloud blasting out neutrinos. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic "ghost particles" through…

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