Black holes

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

Black Hole Fun

It turns out, nearly extreme black holes do have "hair."

Physicists Finally Find a Way to Tell Certain Black Holes Apart

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."

Aump

Scientists suspect that these black holes are constantly devouring one another.

Baby Black Holes May be Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

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.

Weak Black Holes

It's surrounded by trillions of Suns' worth of hot gas — and churning out stars 500 times faster than the Milky Way.

NASA Finds Supermassive Black Hole Birthing Stars at "Furious Rate"

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

NYC Black Hole

The diameter of this cosmic monster is about 12 miles.

Astronomers Spot Black Hole the Size of Manhattan

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.

Smol Black Holes

This entirely new class of small black holes could open up "a new area of study."

Scientists Discover New Class of Tiny Black Holes

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

Burning Up

Across the universe, is someone looking up from their home planet into a vast black hole?

NASA Scientist Ponders Life on Planets Orbiting Black Holes

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.

Cosmic Lookalikes

Everything you thought you knew about black holes might be wrong.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark Energy

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.

Triple Black Hole

Three's a crowd.

Three Supermassive Black Holes Are About to Collide

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.

Sky Dance

In a mind-bending new paper, researchers suggest that there could be black holes orbiting the Sun, out past Pluto.

Astrophysicists: There May Be Black Holes Orbiting Our Sun

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.

Hungwy

You wouldn't like me when I'm hangry.

Uh Oh: The Milky Way's Giant Black Hole Is "Getting Hungrier"

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

Hole Story

Coming in 2020: the first-ever video of a black hole.

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

A team of astrophycisists came up with a way to construct a traversable wormhole that could fling objects or astronauts to another end of the universe.

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