Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.
"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...
By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.
The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...
Scientists can sometimes "see" black holes when they devour matter around them; the surrounding material accelerates so fast it starts to glow. But not all black holes have a bright visible ring ...
The research team is also planning to find out how long a black hole can accrue matter at a super-Eddington rate as well as what percentage of all black holes do so. Shreejaya Karantha is a ...
What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...