Hayes receives funding from the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA), and the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) Supermassive black holes are some ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially explaining the cosmic monster's unusual spin. When you purchase through ...

"We found the culprit. The black hole is killing this galaxy and keeping it dormant by cutting off the source of 'food' the galaxy needs to form new stars." Using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping galaxies than previously thought. Astronomers have spotted the biggest ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.

There are "dozens" of holes lining the floor of Lake Michigan — and scientists are stumped as to why they're there. As LiveScience reports, researchers at a protected region of the Great Lake are less ...

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed. But their days of stealth may be numbered. Two teams of researchers propose methods to search ...

It took about 70 people from 15 different countries and more than 8,000 exchanged messages (long enough for a 900-page detective novel) to crack the case. The short answer: A mega-tsunami created ...

Opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen. That’s far enough to influence the evolution of the universe on ...

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