Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow it up

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Black hole eats star in explosive new images, NASA shares theories

NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For ...

New Theory Suggests We’ve Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Should You Be Worried About a Tiny Black Hole Hitting Your Body?

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you were unlucky enough to be struck by a primordial black hole, its shock ...

Simulations reveal how black holes generate intense light from infalling matter

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
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Astronomers capture the 'invisible' corona of a black hole located 6 billion light-years away

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
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Black hole’s X-ray flare triggers ultra-fast winds racing at one-fifth the speed of light

Black Hole blast unleashes ultra-fast winds at one-fifth the speed of light Astronomers have ...
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This 7-hour cosmic explosion is the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen. Could it be from an elusive class of black hole?

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...