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The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Have We Found the Black Hole Desert?
Astronomers disagree on whether they’ve found evidence that stars don’t make certain sizes of black hole.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
New Black Hole Merger Breaks Record
Gravitational-wave astronomers have detected the collision of two beefy black holes, which created the most massive merger-made black hole found thus far.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Newfound Stellar Companion May Explain Black Hole System
Astronomers have identified a distant stellar tagalong to the binary system V404 Cygni.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Event Horizon Telescope Pushes Toward Sharper Images
The worldwide network of radio dishes has achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from Earth’s surface.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Neutron Star Eaten by Small Black Hole (Probably)
Gravitational-wave astronomers have identified ripples in spacetime from the coalescence of a neutron star with what’s likely one of the smallest black holes ever found.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Video: Plunge into a Black Hole
A new visualization from NASA takes the viewer on a one-way journey into a black hole.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Strong Magnetic Fields Swirl Near Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have detected twisted, orderly magnetic fields near the event horizon of Sagittarius A*.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Mystery Objects Uncovered in Globular Clusters
Astronomers have found two different star clusters with an enigmatic source inside. Are these objects neutron stars or black holes?
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
The Black Hole Shadow in M87: One Year Later
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released the image from its second major campaign, confirming the existence of a persistent black hole shadow and a potentially turbulent environment.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Black Holes in Early Universe Are Too Big
JWST observations of the universe as it was 12 to 13 billion years ago indicate that the black holes at the centers of small, early galaxies were more massive than expected.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Black Hole Rain
The planned LISA gravitational-wave detector might discover a shower of hundreds of small black holes falling in galactic centers.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Black Hole May Have Formed by Direct Collapse
Astronomers may have spotted a supermassive black hole in the early universe that formed when a gargantuan gas cloud imploded.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
First Image of Black Hole Shadow and Jet Together
For the first time, astronomers have seen how the big plasma jet shot out by a supermassive black hole connects to the material falling into the black hole.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
The First Black Hole Image, Take Two
A new analysis of Event Horizon Telescope data sharpens our view of the glowing gas encircling the black hole.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
The Challenge of Weird Black Hole Mergers
When spacetime shivers last only a fraction of a second — as in the case of the massive-black-hole merger GW190521 — astronomers struggle to uncover their origins.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Hotspot Zooms Around Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
Astronomers have detected a bubble of hot gas circling our galaxy’s central black hole soon after seeing a flare, suggesting both arose from the same process.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Monstrous Black Holes Spin More Slowly — But Why?
X-ray observations add to growing evidence that the most massive black holes have a different past than their lightweight peers.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
Astronomers Unveil Image of the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Using a worldwide array of telescopes, the Event Horizon Telescope team has given us our first look at Sagittarius A*.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
10 New Merger Events in Gravitational-Wave Data
An independent team has found additional black hole mergers in LIGO data.
The Black Hole Files with Camille Carlisle
“Closest Black Hole” Doesn’t Exist, After All
Astronomers combined forces to confirm that a black hole proposed to lie a mere 1,000 light-years away isn’t really there.
