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Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies.
This so-called tidal disruption event is the best way to spot these middle-mass black holes. A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant ...
Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 billion solar masses.
A newfound supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe challenges how early cosmic giants formed.
The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.
An interstellar probe sent to a black hole could complete its journey and send data back to Earth in less than a century – if we can find a black hole close enough. Cosimo Bambi at Fudan ...
The ultramassive black hole resides around 5 billion light years away from us in the Cosmic Horseshoe, one of the most massive known galaxies.
Exploring the BTZ black hole in (2+1)-dimensional gravity took me down a fascinating rabbit hole, connecting ideas I never expected—like black holes and topological phases in quantum matter ...
The black hole at the center of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is believed to be as much as 300 million times larger than the sun, with a mass equivalent to half of its galaxy’s stars.
The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.