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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes
A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…
Marianne Guenot
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics discover three supermassive black holes merging together
The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laborat…
Astronomers find 2 supermassive black holes — the nearest to Earth ever discovered — are merging into a 'monster'
Scientists said the pair of black holes is 89 million light-years away from Earth in the NGC 7727 g…
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Jo…
A rare trio of supermassive black holes spotted as three galaxies collide
Located a billion light years away from Earth, the collision doesn't pose any threat to th…
Colliding black holes the size of Lucknow merged to create light for the first time
A black hole merger between two partner black holes — with a combined mass of 150 suns but only as …
James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain
NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years afte…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
A brilliant cosmic burst 100 times as bright as our galaxy came from 2 black holes circling each other, study finds
Scientists said the bright flare occurred after one of the black holes crashed through a gaseous di…
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
A stunning photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals 3 galaxies colliding
Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake
A supermassive black hole may have been kicked out of its galaxy after two other black holes moved …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Watch 2 supermassive black holes dance around each other in a mesmerizing NASA animation
Black holes are encircled by a glowing disk of hot gas. When one black hole approaches another, its…
Aylin Woodward
An experiment that reaches across our galaxy has detected the first signs of a possible 'sea' of ripples in space-time
Supermassive black holes merging in distant galaxies could be creating a background hum of gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Supermassive black holes grew from mysterious ‘seeds’ that are yet to be found
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in outer space whose origins continue to perplex…
Millions of black holes are speeding around the Milky Way after being kicked at birth
Travelling at speeds greater than 70 kilometers per second — that’s 252,000 kilometers per hou…
A collision in space revealed a black hole that physicists thought could never exist. The observatory that detected it cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.
Scientists detected ripples in space-time from the most massive, distant space collision ever found…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Black holes can produce light when they collide, new research shows — astronomers just saw the first-ever 'flare' from a spacetime-bending merger
Two black holes crashed together and merged within a disk of hot matter orbiting another larger bla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
A pair of supermassive black holes are stuck in a collision between galaxies. Astronomers caught the chaos on camera.
"This galaxy is so complex that we could never know what is going on inside it without these detail…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
2,076 black holes are lurking in this photo
The image above shows a piece of the sky in the constellation Fornax, and it's about 16 arcminutes …
Dave Mosher
Scientists think they've observed a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time. It made ripples in space and time, as Einstein predicted.
Scott's team think the ripples in spacetime from this event, also known as gravitational waves, jus…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Gravitational waves are teaching scientists the 'native language' of black holes
Until we recorded their gravitational waves, all evidence of black holes was indirect. "The regular…
Sarah Kramer
Newly discovered gravitational waves hint that 'cities' of black holes may lurk in space
LIGO may also eventually aid in listening to the parts of the universe that were created shortly af…