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A black hole's secrets could hide in its dizzying light 'echoes'

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing.

Space · Nov 12, 2024

'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong': How astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani's research on supermassive black holes is rewriting the history of our universe

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

LiveScience · Nov 11, 2024

Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates

Researchers have discovered the first evidence that the brightest accretion disks around supermassive black holes "wobble" as their monstrous occupants drag them around.

Space · Nov 11, 2024

James Webb telescope spots 'feasting' black hole eating 40 times faster than should be possible

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.

LiveScience · Nov 5, 2024

Jeremy Hunt’s Treasury may have broken the law by hiding Budget black hole, says OBR

£9.5bn spending gap wasn’t disclosed, ‘which under the law ... they should have done’, says fiscal watchdog

The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2024

Webb Telescope Discovered An Ancient Black Hole With A Voracious Appetite

In a study published Monday, astronomers describe a furiously-feasting black hole from the dawn of the universe.

Inverse · Nov 5, 2024

Couple may be forced to sell after £25,000 loss as tenant illegally sublets Chelsea flat on Airbnb

Yasmina Mathias and Robert Mathias said retirement was now ‘out of the question’ as they figure out how to plug a huge black hole in their finances

Evening Standard · Nov 3, 2024

Black holes that form in 'reverse Big Bang replays' could account for dark energy

Black hole formation could be a little Big Bang in reverse, coupling the matter of a dying star with dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Space · Nov 2, 2024

Hubble watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and 'birth atoms'

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision that created the smallest black hole ever seen.

Space · Nov 1, 2024

Black holes could be driving the expansion of the universe, new study suggests

An artist's rendering of a black hole

LiveScience · Oct 31, 2024