Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

An explanation of what white wholes are and why we have not yet seen them Theoretically, white holes are areas of space that behave like black holes in reverse. A white hole would expel matter and ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024.

each with a central black hole appearing as a bright white dot surrounded by patches and filaments of gas. In each image, a patch of purple with neon pink veins floats in the blackness of space ...

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