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Home News An artist's impression of a black hole warping space-time around it. Astronomers used this phenomenon, called gravitational lensing, to detect one of the largest black holes ever found in the universe. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), N. Bartmann) Astronomers have discovered one of the…

On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and sending astronomers on a chase to study the event using the most powerful telescopes in the world. The new source, dubbed GRB 221009A for its discovery date,…

Home News Science & Astronomy Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other, emitting gravitational waves. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) When black holes collide and merge to form even more massive black holes, this violent process sends ripples surging through the very fabric of space. A new…

Our universe began with a puzzle. For 100 million years after the big bang, it expanded. Then something strange happened — this expansion suddenly accelerated and has continued to accelerate ever since. Today cosmologists think some kind of pressure must have forced this acceleration, all powered by huge amounts of…

Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy – the ‘missing’ 70% of the Universe. ​The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein’s theory of gravity. The…

A new paper has proposed an absolutely wild idea. What if aliens are creating black holes to use as quantum storage? It sounds crazy, but some scientists say it could give us a solution to the Fermi Paradox, which essentially states that if life is common in our universe, why…

Home News The so-called Tadpole near the galaxy's center could be the victim of a rare, intermediate-mass black hole. (Image credit: Keio University) An enormous, deformed dust cloud that astronomers nicknamed "the Tadpole" could point to the location of an extremely rare type of black hole never confirmed to exist…

Observations have found black holes spanning 10 orders of magnitude in mass across most of cosmic history. The assembly of stellar and supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass in galaxies can help to diagnose the origins of locally observed correlations between SMBH mass and stellar mass.   A team of researchers led…

A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole due to its shape, appears to be revolving around a space devoid of any bright objects. This suggests that the Tadpole is orbiting a dark object, most likely a black hole 100,000 times more massive than the Sun. Future observations will help…

Home News An artist's concept of a supermassive black hole, complete with a fiery accretion disk. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Supermassive black holes could be the engines driving the expansion of the universe, according to research that proposes a solution to "one of the biggest problems in cosmology."  By comparing supermassive…