Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked.
Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...
The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...
Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...
Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if they are instead gravastars, fuzzballs or something else entirely ...
Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...
Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...
APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...
New results from an international team including UBC astrophysicists highlight the first black hole observed to be spinning ...