Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

The gravity of the situation: Although Einsteing himself argued against the existence of black holes, their existence was originally derived from Einstein’s formulation of what is now known as ...

Astronomers have observed a flare of light near Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. These bursts happen daily; some last seconds, others shine for a ...

Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) The black hole at the center of our galaxy is experiencing a flurry of flares, ranging from flickers to brilliant eruptions, according to a team ...

A rare collision between two supermassive black holes (SMBH) appears to have sent the resulting merger speeding through the universe, making it one of the fastest-moving black holes we have ever seen.

Asteroid-mass black holes are less than a micrometer across, so even the tidal forces would cover a tiny area. If one passed through your midsection or one of your limbs, there might be some local ...

It is a terrifying scenario straight out of science fiction. So, what would happen if you were struck by a primordial black hole? We already know that coming into contact with a stellar-mass ...

Astronomers know that AGN elsewhere in the universe are powered by supermassive black holes gobbling up the dense gas and dust and stars that sit at the centre of galaxies, in the process spewing out ...

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity. Situated 26,000 light ...

William Alston, Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Hertfordshire's Center of Astrophysics, has detected unprecedented periodic X-ray pulses from the supermassive black hole 1ES ...

Black holes have fascinated scientists for a long time. Now, new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provides insight into one of the more fascinating aspects of these celestial objects: their ...