There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...
Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
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Unusual spiral quasar seen dancing with a companionThis rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...
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Supermassive black hole births jets, hosts orbiting white dwarf, all while astronomers watchSince 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...
University of Connecticut Physics Ph.D. student Logan Fries detailed exciting findings about nearby black holes at a press ...
Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and ...
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