When AT2018hyz, aka “Jetty,” was first discovered, radio telescopes didn’t detect any signatures of an outflow emission of material within the […]
Category: black holes
Early Universe’s supermassive black holes grew in cocoons like butterflies
During cocoon phase, young, supermassive black holes are surrounded by high-density gas. When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its […]
Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes
Gamwell sees echoes of Mitchell’s dark stars, for instance, in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A Descent Into the Maelstrom,” […]
Runaway black hole mergers may have built supermassive black holes
The researchers used cosmological simulations to recreate the first 700 million years of cosmic history, focusing on the formation of […]
New black hole merger bolsters Hawking area theorem
Skip to content a black hole hunting machine Physicists spliced merger’s gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas. […]
Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books
Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the most massive merger between two […]
A star has been destroyed by a wandering supermassive black hole
Skip to content Second supermassive black hole is a long way from the galaxy’s core. Back in 2024, a system […]