Tagged: black hole

Astronomers have spotted a mystery object that they say could be a black hole or a neutron star. Both black holes and neutron stars are the remains of dead stars. “When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind...

It wasn’t the universe-starting Big Bang, but it might be the biggest explosion since. Astronomers say they’ve detected a black hole-triggered explosion so large that it could have obliterated our own Milky Way galaxy with plenty of room to spare, making it the biggest blast...

Scientists think that they’ve spotted a rare, Jupiter-size black hole casually strolling through the Milky Way galaxy. Of course, scientists can’t see any black holes directly — but new research tracking a celestial cloud structure saw strange behavior that may have been caused by just...

Scientists on the hunt for colliding black holes should turn their eyes to the quiet, outer regions of galaxies like the Milky Way, a new study suggests. In late 2015, researchers made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the universal fabric...

Scientists think that they’ve spotted a rare, Jupiter-size black hole casually strolling through the Milky Way galaxy. Of course, scientists can’t see any black holes directly — but new research tracking a celestial cloud structure saw strange behavior that may have been caused by just...

A dust-enshrouded, giant black hole ripping apart a star blasted out a superfast jet of particles that packed about 125 billion times the amount of energy the sun releases per year, a new study finds. This is the first time astronomers have directly imaged the...

A black hole swallowing a neutron star has likely been detected for the first time, according to scientists. The Australian National University (ANU), which participated in the research, explains that the “cataclysmic event” was detected on Aug. 14, 2019, by gravitational-wave discovery machines in the...

In August 2017, for the first time ever, scientists spotted gravitational waves generated by the merger of two superdense stellar corpses known as neutron stars. This landmark find was a major step forward in understanding the cosmos, astronomers have stressed. At the time, scientists suggested...

Scientists are getting familiar with black holes bumping in the night. Back in 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (or LIGO) made history by detecting the rumbles in spacetime caused by two black holes colliding in a galaxy far, far away. This first detection confirmed...

Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It’s a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small...