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Gravitational-Wave Detections Surge with Latest Release
Astronomers have released the newest list of gravitational-wave detections, almost doubling the number of known signals from colliding black holes.
What's Feeding Our Supermassive Black Hole?
Astronomers have identified the likely source of gas that flows into the maw of the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*.
A Black Hole’s Puzzling X-Ray Bursts
In 2019, a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 300 million light-years away woke up. Now, it’s puzzling astronomers with an unexpected slowdown in its X-ray bursts.
Astronomers Spot Possible Missing Link to Webb’s Little Red Dots
Astronomers may have found the missing link required to understand one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s most puzzling discoveries.
How Tilted Orbits Impact Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
What factors impact how long it takes for a supermassive black hole binary to merge?
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.
Astronomers Discover Second Failed Supernova Candidate
Astronomers might have spotted a star in the Andromeda Galaxy collapsing directly into a black hole, without the accompanying fanfare of a supernova.
Not Every Galaxy Has a Central Black Hole
Many less massive galaxies appear to lack something astronomers thought was ubiquitous: a central, supermassive black hole.
Boosting the Gravitational Wave Background
Why is the gravitational-wave background — the hum made by supermassive black holes colliding across the universe — stronger than expected?
Red Giant “Star Songs” Reveal Their Chaotic, Pasts
Astronomers have tuned in to the celestial “songs” of two red giant stars to reveal their hidden histories — including a case of stellar cannibalism.
Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before
Two recent discoveries of black hole mergers add to the evidence that such mergers happen over and over again.
Merged Stellar Pairs May Orbit the Milky Way’s Black Hole
The merged remnants of stellar pairs may orbit the Milky Way’s central, supermassive black hole.
Black Hole Eats through Star, Explodes it from Within
The longest-duration burst of gamma rays on record might mark the moment a black hole tunneled through a star and blew it up from within.
Early Galaxy Hosts Black Hole with the Mass of 50 Million Suns
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that, just 800 million years after the Big Bang, there is a galaxy that contains a supermassive black hole — and not much else.
Celebrating 10 Years of Gravitational-Wave Discoveries
The LIGO gravitational-wave detector celebrates its 10th birthday with the clearest signal yet from a pair of merging black holes.
Scientists Release the Latest Gravitational-wave Detections
The number of gravitational-wave signals has just doubled with the release of the newest catalog of events.
Distant Little Red Dot Hosts a Huge (and Growing) Black Hole
A "little red dot" galaxy from when the universe was roughly half a billion years old shows signs of the most distant black hole known.
A Candidate Direct-Collapse Black Hole in the Infinity Galaxy
Researchers have discovered a rare ring-galaxy duo that appears to harbor a supermassive black hole formed through direct collapse
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.
Supermassive Black Hole Wakes Up
Regular bursts of high-energy X-rays might herald the birth of active galactic nuclei, the supermassive black holes in galaxy cores.
