A stronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth. The cosmic juggernaut, which is about as massive as 700 million suns, is taking aim at ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a middleweight black hole in the nearby universe. The discovery could help solve the riddle of how even heftier black holes form and grow up with their ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Astronomers have discovered the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away. That's three times closer than the previous record-holder.

Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before hibernating for the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

Black holes are famous for being impossible to see directly. Everything that comes close to them, even light, gets sucked in by their enormously strong gravity, meaning the black holes themselves ...

Elusive mid-sized black hole spotted at center of swallowed galaxy. By Will Dunham. July 10, 2024 4:57 PM UTC Updated July 11, 2024 A European Space Agency/Hubble image shows the ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

It has spotted a black hole that appears to have been feeding at 40 times the theoretical limit for millions of years, allowing growth at a pace sufficient to build a supermassive black hole.

Black Holes; Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us. News. By Harry Baker published 15 January 2025 ...