A one million-solar-mass black hole resides outside its host galaxy's centre. In a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie, scientists have captured a hungry black hole that is ripping up and ...

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie ... the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it. The sneaky black hole betrayed ...

This suggests that something else is at play. One possibility is that a smaller object — like a star or mini black hole — is orbiting the central black hole and disrupting its disk.

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 ...

But observations have revealed a strange scarcity of black holes between about two and five times the Sun’s mass. Right now, it’s unclear whether these mini black holes are just hard to detect ...

said he and fellow MIT astronomer Erin Kara were curious whether taking a “high-speed movie” of a black hole could help identify new ones. Burdge said he found that V404 Cygni had been filmed ...

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At least, on paper. Aug. 5, 2024 Detecting the existence of mini black holes will require extremely precise measurements of where planets are and models of where they’re supposed to be.

Now, researchers want to take this imaging one step farther, by creating a movie of a black hole. This week, researchers working on EHT announced that the network of telescopes can now observe a ...

Doeleman says, this result is “a stepping stone to full color, high-definition movies of black hole movies… it’s a very big step!” The PopSci team has tested hundreds of products and spent ...