Black Hole

A supermassive black hole that tore apart a star years ago is now blasting out energy that rivals a gamma-ray burst, potentially making it one of the most powerful single events ever detected in the universe. Instead of fading after its initial flare, the system has continued to brighten, defying…

Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst argue that an ultra-high-energy neutrino detected by the KM3NeT experiment could be the signature of an explosion of a ‘quasi-extremal primordial black hole,’ pointing toward new physics beyond the Standard Model. The KM3NeT experiment has recently observed a neutrino with an energy around…

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Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes — have identified the likely starting point of a massive cosmic jet in the heart of Messier 87. This Webb/NIRCam image shows a cosmic jet in Messier 87. Image credit: Jan Röder / Maciek Wielgus…

January 30, 2026 1 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and…

A Big Catch Awaits in Black Hole Fishing Playsaurus has partnered with SDG Games to bring the wonderfully strange incremental title Black Hole Fishing to a wider audience on Steam. Playsaurus, best known for genre-defining idle hits like Clicker Heroes and Mr. Mine, will publish the game, helping introduce its…

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometres per second, just over double Earth’s speed around the Sun. Imagine if it had been something much bigger and faster: a black hole travelling at…

This image is the sum of 86 observations added together, representing over three million seconds of Chandra observing time. It spans just about 60 light-years across, which is a veritable pinprick on the entire sky. The underlying image contains lower-, medium-, and higher-energy X-rays in red, green, and blue respectively.…

Ryan Wills for New Scientist/Adobe Stock Rushing to get to work in the morning, we grab our coat, bag and keys and – invariably – steal a glance at the clock to check that we are running on time. The passing of time is so integral to our day-to-day lives…

In the early universe, astronomers found a rare light that breaks the rules of how black holes grow. Researchers from Waseda University and Tohoku University, working with the Subaru Telescope, have uncovered a quasar, J084222.9+001000 (hereafter ID830), a cosmic powerhouse that existed nearly 12 billion years ago. This quasar is…