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A bizarre celestial object too big to be a neutron star but too small for a black hole could undo the rules astrophysicsts use to understand the universe.

Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers found an incredibly rare explosion that they think was caused by two black holes merging while orbiting an even larger one.

When Two Black Holes Collided, NASA Spotted Something Very Surprising

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.

You Could Generate Power by Dangling Crap Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.

A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) claim to have spotted the closest black hole to Earth ever discovered.

Astronomers Find Nearest Black Hole to Earth, and It’s Strange

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found a rare, near-death experience play out in space where a black hole devoured the outer layers of a star but left the core intact.

Black Hole Devours Outside of Star, Leaves Core Behind

By Dan Robitzski

After nearly 30 years of research, astronomers found that a star orbiting a black hole does so in a rosette shape, supporting Einstein's general relativity.

A Star Is Circling a Black Hole and Its Orbit Is Absolutely Nuts

By Dan Robitzski

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

After the first-ever image of a black hole, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing out jets of particles.

Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have found a way to predict an intricate internal structure within black hole images caused by gravitational light bending.

Researchers Find Captivating New Details In Image of Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.

Astronomers: Here’s This Incredibly Ancient Supermassive Black Hole We Found

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.

Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made an unexpected discovery, spotting a black hole emitting a massive cloud of X-rays some 30,000 light years away.

NASA Probe Exploring Asteroid Accidentally Snaps Black Hole Image

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists think they've figured out how to build quantum circuits that behave like entangled black holes, which would be able to teleport information.

Scientists Are Building a Quantum Teleporter Based on Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

A flair in outer space may be a sign of a phenomenon first proposed in 2017: two massive black holes, wrapping around each other on a collision course.

Flaring Object in Space May Be Two Supermassive Black Holes Colliding

Researchers from UCLA have identified six shape-shifting G objects orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Strange Shape-Shifting Objects Found Near Milky Way’s Black Hole

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.

Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."

Our Galaxy Might Have — Two! — Black Holes at Its Center

By Kristin Houser

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.

MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy’s Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.

New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spotted a gigantic black hole 70 times the mass of the Sun in our galaxy — way bigger than expected.

Scientists: Ominous Black Hole Is Way Too Big to Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.

New Calculations: Black Holes Could Have Thousands of Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.

Astronomers Catch Three Black Holes “Cooking” Their Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.

Astronomers Spot First Galaxy With Three Supermassive Black Holes

By Kristin Houser

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.

Physicists Finally Find a Way to Tell Certain Black Holes Apart

By Kristin Houser

A group of scientists are suggesting that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are surrounded by, and devour, much smaller "baby black holes."

Baby Black Holes May be Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

NASA found a weak supermassive black hole in the Phoenix Cluster billions of light years away that is not strong enough to stop stars from forming.

NASA Finds Supermassive Black Hole Birthing Stars at “Furious Rate”

By Victor Tangermann

Nobel-winning cosmologist James Peebles argues that we need a better way to describe how the beginning of the universe happened than the "Big Bang."

Nobel-Winning Scientist: I Have No Idea if the Big Bang Happened

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists spotted a runaway star traveling across the galaxy so rapidly that it will never return and traced its path back to our supermassive black hole.

A Supermassive Black Hole Yeeted This Star at 3.7 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

An online calculator shows what would happen if a black hole gulped down the Earth or any other objects floating around in space.

Here’s What Would Happen if Earth Collided With a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers claim to have spotted a tiny black hole that's only 20 kilometers across. That's tiny.

Astronomers Spot Black Hole the Size of Manhattan

By Victor Tangermann

While studying hypersonic jet propulsion, a team of engineers stumbled upon the mechanism that could've led to the Big Bang.

Scientists Accidentally Recreate Big Bang Detonation in the Lab

By Kristin Houser

In a new study, a team of astronomers from Ohio State University claim to have discovered an entirely new and previously missing class of black holes.

Scientists Discover New Class of Tiny Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just publicly presented the first ever images of the German space agency's (DLR) X-ray telescope eROSITA. And they're magnificent.

Here Are The First-Ever Images From the Dark Matter Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

In a paper, NASA scientist Jeremy Schnittman argues that it's pretty unlikely planets that orbit black holes could harbor life.

NASA Scientist Ponders Life on Planets Orbiting Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope are upping the ante: they just announced plans to capture real-time video of our galaxy's central black hole.

Scientists Plan to Capture a Feasting Black Hole on Video

By Dan Robitzski

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of NASA scientists have caught three supermassive black holes in the act of merging together a measly one billion light-years away from Earth.

Three Supermassive Black Holes Are About to Collide

By Victor Tangermann

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers Researchers are suggesting that in the orbit of the Milky Way's sun may be a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.are suggesting that the Sun's orbit might have captured a free-floating "primordial black hole" — or even more than one.

Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

By Jon Christian

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists can finally take a closer look at the big, radioactive bubbles our galaxy's black hole burped out millions of years ago.

Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Lets out Two Giant, Radioactive Burps

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.

A Runaway Star Is Escaping a Black Hole at 1.2 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Away appears to be unusually hungry based on how brightly it's glowing.

Uh Oh: The Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Is “Getting Hungrier”

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers recorded the gravitational waves given off by the formation of a new black hole.

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists is preparing to release a world first: video footage of an enormous black hole devouring vast clouds of gas.

Astronomers Say They’ll Soon Release First Video of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

Scientists think they've detected a bizarre black hole that, at 100 times the mass of our sun, is twice the theoretical size limit.

Spotted: A Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be Physically Possible

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* flare up growing 75 times brighter than usual.

The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Just Did Something Wild

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that dark matter was already there before the Big Bang occurred, altering our understanding of the history of the universe.

New Research: There May Have Been Dark Matter Before Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever

Astronomers Just Spotted One of the Biggest Black Holes Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Extremely bright objects that first appeared close to the Big Bang — theoretical objects called "dark stars" — could have seeded supermassive black holes.

These Bizarre Objects May Have “Seeded” Supermassive Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Some galaxies called blue nuggets are unusually tiny but house gargantuan black holes. Astronomers finally think they know why.

Scientists Unraveled Why Some Tiny Galaxies Have Huge Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that tiny amounts of dark matter could behave like high-speed projectiles, capable of tearing through human flesh.

Study: “Dark Matter Bullets” Could Tear Human Flesh Apart

By Victor Tangermann

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just awarded SpaceX with a launch services contract to launch NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission in 2021.

SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.

Gravitational Waves

Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of creating "dead zones," the radiation from black holes could facilitate the emergence of life on a nearby planet, according to a Harvard study.

Harvard Scientists: Radiation From Black Holes May Create Life

By Kristin Houser

A new NASA study reveals why the Milky Way's black hole is so tranquil: a powerful and unique magnetic field is holding it at bay.

Here’s What’s Keeping the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole at Bay

By Dan Robitzski

A new model reveals that black holes could take in a steady stream of antimatter particles that gradually chip away until the black hole dissipates.

New Research Reveals That Black Holes Can Die

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers just got their best look at the swirling layers of gas that orbit the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

Something Is Blocking the View of Our Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski