Chinese astronomers investigated the spectral and temporal properties of a black hole X-ray binary system known as SLX ...

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There’s a pretty hot party raging in the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Using new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astrophysicists found that the ...

It is a terrifying scenario straight out of science fiction. So, what would happen if you were struck by a primordial black hole? We already know that coming into contact with a stellar-mass ...

Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) The black hole at the center of our galaxy is experiencing a flurry of flares, ranging from flickers to brilliant eruptions, according to a team ...

Scientists announced Tuesday that the telescope had given scientists the longest and most detailed glimpse thus far of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

More precisely, the team behind the simulation discovered that binary black hole pairs formed in dense star clusters first align their spins before coming together and merging. The discovery could ...

For example, any primordial black hole smaller than 10 12 kg would have already evaporated thanks to Hawking radiation. Anything larger than 10 20 kg would gravitationally lens stars in the Milky Way.