A supermassive black hole, several million solar masses, has been discovered at the center of the GN-z11 galaxy, existing approximately 400 million years post-Big Bang. The black hole's accretion disk ...

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Black hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this puzzle: Black holes may actually be a theoretical type of star called a 'gravastar,' filled with ...

Astronomers have discovered a lightweight black hole that’s a bit of a cosmic conundrum. Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from far less than a paperclip to at least tens of ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...

Spin in a black hole produces an effect called "frame dragging," an effect where space-time is curved around the spinning black hole by the rotation of the black hole. This profoundly affects ...