Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Intermediate-mass black holes—somewhere between stellar-mass and supermassive—are the rarest type of black hole in the universe. 300 of these elusive black holes were recently observed by NSF ...

When stars cease to fuse hydrogen at the end of their lifetime, they collapse in on themselves, condensing into a ...

The two black holes tracked by the Event Horizon Telescope were both of this type. Sagittarius A* (Sag A* for short) is smack in the middle of the Milky Way, some 26,000 light years from Earth.

Rotating black holes are the most powerful phenomenon in the known universe. Their powerful gravity radically alters the ...

But that all changed in the early 1990s when ... More specifically, through a large, rotating black hole, which is where these types of singularities exist. Now, astronomers obviously can't ...

Astrophysicists suspect that all massive galaxies contain a black hole at their ... “For example, is there any relationship between the mechanisms of black hole formation and the types of galaxies ...

This means black holes indulging in stellar meals of all sizes could be responsible for a higher-than-suspected amount of high-energy charged particles called "cosmic rays," which are constantly ...

(If all of this is unsatisfying ... planets and even other black holes! There’s another type of black hole called a supermassive black hole. These are way too massive to have been created by one star ...

In this program, we will explore the diverse types of black holes, their origins ... nuclear fusion within stars produces all atomic nuclei lighter than and including iron, and the process releases ...