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Scientists grow swirling 'black hole rings' in the lab for the 1st time

Scientists smashed plasma jets together to create artificial accretion disks that could help reveal how black holes grow.

LiveScience

What happened to the missing stars at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy?

The stellar companions of more than a dozen stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy have gone missing — and astronomers want to know why.

Space

Some black holes may actually be tangles in the fabric of space-time, new research suggests

A new paper discusses how light interacts with theoretical objects called "topological solitons" — kinks in the fabric of space-time that look just like black holes.

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Violent origins of gravitational waves probed by new telescope array

The new BlackGEM array will hunt for black hole mergers and neutron star collisions, cataclysmic events that generate ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.

Space

The most powerful black holes in the universe may finally have an explanation

Quasars, the most extreme phenomena in the universe, are triggered when galactic collisions deliver gas to feeding black holes, new research suggests.

Space

Astronomers Discover the Dark Source of the Brightest Cosmic Blast Ever

AT2021lwx is outshining and outlasting supernovas by a big margin.

Inverse

Astronomers spot the largest cosmic explosion ever seen

The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any known supernova, research suggested

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Astronomers spot incredible cosmic explosion that is largest and brightest ever seen

Scientists led by the University of Southampton have spotted explosion AT2021lwx, which occurred nearly eight billion light years away

Daily Mirror

Boom! Astronomers just watched the largest explosion in space rage for 3 years

The largest cosmic explosion ever seen by astronomers has been raging for three years and is ten times more powerful than a supernova. It may be driven by a black hole ripping apart a gas cloud.

Space

A messy black hole may have just triggered the largest explosion in the universe

Astronomers have spotted a giant explosion releasing over 100 times more energy than the sun will release across its entire lifetime. A monster black hole is likely to blame.

LiveScience

Astronomers capture largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

Fireball ‘100 times the size of the solar system’ thought to have been caused by gas being sucked into supermassive black hole

The Guardian - UK

'Runaway black hole,' or sneaky galaxy in disguise? Experts are conflicted.

A rogue black hole may not be to blame for a mysterious streak of stars coursing through space, a new study suggests.

LiveScience

Black hole shreds star in a cosmic feeding frenzy that has astronomers thrilled

Astronomers have for the first time spotted streams of stellar material circling a black hole and colliding with themselves, shedding light on how accretion disks take shape.

Space

Scientists Spy a Supermassive Black Hole Adorned With the Shredded Remains of a Star

The star had an unfortunate encounter with the engine at the center of a distant galaxy, resulting in a tidal disruption event.

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Mystery solved? Runaway black hole chased by tail of stars may be galaxy in disguise

A 200,000-light-year-long chain of stars originally thought to be trailing a runaway black hole may actually be a galaxy in disguise.

Space

Enormous M87 galaxy looks like giant potato in 1st-ever 3D map (image)

Astronomers have created a 3D map of the massive elliptical galaxy Messier 87 and gotten a better estimate of the mass of its central supermassive black hole.

Space

Meet 'Scary Barbie,' a black hole slaughtering a star in the brightest way possible

Astronomers detected one of the brightest and most energetic cosmic objects ever observed in the form of a star being torn to shreds by a supermassive black hole.

Daily Mirror

Moment black hole blasts out a giant mysterious jet seen for the very first time

The image captures the precise moment the astrophysical jet moving at nearly the speed of light connects to matter swirling around the hole before being sucked in

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Shamel Pitts: Black Hole review – fragile glimpses of an Afrofuturist world

The US dancer conjures a potent spectacle filled with mysterious symbolism as three figures strain, combine and detach in stirring, almost ritual patterns

The Hindu

Have scientists detected a nearby black hole devouring a star?

The centre of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star

Space

Scientists discover closest star-shredding black hole to Earth ever seen

Astronomers comparing maps of the universe uncovered the nearest example of a black hole devouring a star ever detected.

Space

Tour 10 mind-bending supermassive black holes in this NASA video

A new NASA animation shows the tremendous scales of supermassive black holes, which have masses millions to billions of times that of the sun and dominate the centers of most galaxies.

Space

NASA shares stunning deep space images for Black Hole Week 2023

Black hole week kicked off on Monday (May 1) with scientists and space enthusiasts alike celebrating our growing understanding of these cosmic titans.

Inverse

Look! New Hubble Image Shows Galaxies in a Gravitational Dance

Someday, these two galaxies may merge, and two supermassive black holes will become one.

The Conversation

AI is helping astronomers make new discoveries and learn about the universe faster than ever before

The famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to dramatically improve upon its first image from 2019, which now shows the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy as darker and bigger than the first image depicted.

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