Einstein's theory comes wrapped up with a bow: Astronomers spot star wobbling around black hole

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow it up

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
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How do you activate a supermassive black hole? A galaxy merger should do the trick

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

Black hole ejects matter at 20% light speed in sun-like magnetic event

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...
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Astronomers capture the 'invisible' corona of a black hole located 6 billion light-years away

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
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Spacetime Vortices Spotted For The First Time As Black Hole Kills A Star

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Black hole eats star: Student helps chart gamma-ray burst that lasted for days

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
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Euclid telescope shows merging galaxies are prime triggers for black hole outbursts

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

Scientists Unveil the Most Realistic Black Hole Accretion Model Ever Created

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...