Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

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"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't ...

"The higher the spin, the more energy the black hole can release." Black holes may leak more energy to their surroundings than previously suspected — and the faster these voids spin, the more ...

A survey to reveal the unseen majority of the Universe has just turned up a treasure trove of black holes that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos. Lurking at the centers of ...

A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that's intriguing astronomers. Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole ...

Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) The black hole at the center of our galaxy is experiencing a flurry of flares, ranging from flickers to brilliant eruptions, according to a team ...

The probability of such an event is extremely low. A new scientific study explores the potentially lethal effects of tiny primordial black holes passing through the human body, revealing that ...

Black holes have fascinated scientists for a long time. Now, new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provides insight into one of the more fascinating aspects of these celestial objects: their ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded never-before-seen images of the hot disc swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It found the disc constantly ...

A rare instance of a supermassive black hole merger has been observed, resulting in a black hole exhibiting an unusually high proper motion. The New Scientist reported that this event holds ...