Are there different types of black holes? New method puts Einstein to the test

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

How Supermassive Black Holes Can Become Cosmic Nightmares

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...
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Enormous black hole unexpectedly found in tiny galaxy

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Our universe may have been born inside a black hole, study finds

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...
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Meet the Best-Known Black Holes In Our Galaxy

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have ...