Black Holes

James Webb Space Telescope discovers how black holes feed themselves

By Robert Lea Published 19 July 26

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten a glimpse at the mechanisms that supermassive black holes use to feed themselves.

Stephen Hawking's famous 'leaky' black hole theory gets much-needed update

By Robert Lea Published 16 July 26

"Hawking's laws of black hole mechanics provided a satisfying connection between extreme and ordinary physics and have been the paradigm for 50 years, but they have a serious limitation."

The 1st of 10,000 'missing' black holes in the Omega Centauri star cluster has been found by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes

By Keith Cooper Published 14 July 26

The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks to teamwork by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

A ravenous black hole in our backyard could be our window into the ancient universe

By Robert Lea Published 10 July 26

A feeding black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy is behaving similarly to cosmic titans that existed just after the Big Bang.

Scientists have discovered the oldest quasar ever seen, and it shines with the light of a trillion suns

By Robert Lea Published 9 July 26

Using the ESA's Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of black hole-powered quasars in the early universe, including the most ancient and distant ever seen.

Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth

By Robert Lea Published 6 July 26

Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy neutrinos through the cosmos.

Black hole's 'point of no escape' studied with the loudest gravitational waves ever heard

By Robert Lea Published 26 June 26

The loudest crash of gravitational waves ever heard provides an intriguing way of studying event horizons, the boundaries at which nothing can escape the grip of these cosmic titans.

Astronomers solve the mystery of black holes' delayed cosmic 'burps'

By Sharmila Kuthunur Published 18 June 26

A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving astronomers a chemical blueprint to predict them early.

NASA X-ray spacecraft catches jet erupting from 1st supermassive black hole imaged by humanity

By Robert Lea Published 16 June 26

"We could already see changes in the jet, but never with this level of detail in X-rays."

Could the secret to black hole formation be locked away in this record-breaking ancient quasar?

By Keith Cooper Published 12 June 26

The quasar existed 12.9 billion years ago and shows that supermassive black holes were able to age rapidly in the early universe.