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Have gravitational waves provided the first hint of primordial black holes born during the Big Bang?
By Robert Lea published
Scientists may have "heard" the first tantalizing evidence of primordial black holes formed directly from overly dense pockets of matter just after the Big Bang.

James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy's monster black hole fire out a flare
By Robert Lea published
"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength."

James Webb Space Telescope spots rapidly feeding supermassive black hole in the infant universe: 'This discovery is truly remarkable.'
By Robert Lea published
"This challenges our understanding of black hole and galaxy formation in the early universe."

As our black hole images get more detailed, we may find Einstein wasn't quite right about them
By Robert Lea published
Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, general relativity, may not be the best recipe to describe black holes.

Scientists solve the mystery of 'impossible' merger of 'forbidden' black holes
By Robert Lea published
Scientists may have solved the mystery of an "impossible" merger between two black holes so massive and fast-spinning that they shouldn't even exist, according to current theory.

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD'
By Robert Lea published
"The James Webb Space Telescope has opened a new frontier in extragalactic astrophysics, revealing objects we didn't even suspect existed, and we're only at the beginning of this adventure."

Scientists detect biggest black hole flare ever seen — with the power of 10 trillion suns
By Robert Lea published
Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart and devouring a star 30 times as massive as the sun.

Enormous black hole unexpectedly found in tiny galaxy
By Samantha Mathewson published
An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way’s tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how small galaxies hold themselves together.
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