Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

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They have successfully simulated the 'Black Hole Bomb' theory in a lab. This theory, proposed in the 1970s, explores tapping into a black hole's rotational energy. The experiment involved a ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

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Black Hole and the Event Horizon Telescope M87 is home to a supermassive black hole at its center. Estimated mass: 6.5 billion solar masses. The first-ever direct image of a black hole was ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

A surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding our understanding of black holes, the objects they can host, and the way they form. Many black holes detected to date appear to ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but technology can provide valuable insight into their destructive power. For a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Fan Zou receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Chandra X-ray Center and Penn State. W. Niel Brandt receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Chandra ...