New gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ...

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 ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of distant galactic centers. Using light at a frequency of 345 GHz, they’ve ...

In 1927, Semyon Semyonov, a local farmer who lived 70 km south-southeast of the blast’s epicentre, recalled his experience, saying: ‘‘I sat on the steps of my house facing ... a primordial black hole ...

NASA finds supermassive black hole called ‘Space Jaws:’ Why it deserves sci-fi horror name A sneaky black hole was the source of a tidal disruption event that was so large and so bright that ...

CENDES: So for the Gaia black holes, they're actually the closest black holes that we know of to Earth. So the closest black hole, about 1,600 light years from us.

Teams of astronomers at Meyer's university and many other institutions have been keeping an eye on the black hole ever since. The vigilance paid off when, in April 2023, a team at the university ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a black hole devouring a star. Skip to main content. ... Located just 2,000 light-years away, it is one of the closest known black holes to Earth.

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.