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Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...
Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...
NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...
Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...
A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.
A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...
A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...
Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...
Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...