Black Holes

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe."

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures stretching nearly a million light-years across space."

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."

"If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe."

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries."

"We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow."

"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow."

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets."

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."

"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."