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simulation of merging supermassive black holes

Why weren’t astronomers sure that supermassive black holes could merge?

Artist's illustration of giant black hole jets in the early universe

Cosmology, Exotic Objects

Black hole caught blasting jets out into the cosmic void

How can a black hole pull light into itself if a photon is massless?

Galaxies, Science

Event Horizon Telescope captures highest-resolution images ever taken from the ground

simulation of merging supermassive black holes

Cosmology, Exotic Objects

How merging black holes could reveal the nature of dark matter

10 modern mysteries of the universe

galaxy cluster Abell 2744 as seen by JWST and the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Cosmology, Exotic Objects

Astronomers say they’ve spotted the oldest, most distant black hole. How do they know this?

This artist’s impression shows two stages in the formation of a disc of gas and dust around the massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728. The core of this galaxy lit up in 2019 and keeps brightening today — the first time we observe a massive black hole become active in real time. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser.

Exotic Objects, Science

A distant black hole reawakens, and astronomers watch it happen

NGC 5264

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Massive black holes may eat differently in small galaxies than in large ones

Merging black holes

When black holes merge, is the diameter of the new black hole bigger?

The LISA spacecrafts observing gravitational waves from a distant source while orbiting the Sun. Credit: Simon Barke/Univ. Florida, CC BY

Exotic Objects, Robotic Spaceflight, Science

‘Hairy’ black holes may get a massive glow-up from the LISA spacecrafts

A visualization of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Credit: Abhishek Joshi/UIUC

Exotic Objects, Science

Could you survive falling into a black hole? It depends.