The Latest Breaking News from Black Hole

Finding supermassive black holes with masses billions of times greater than the sun under a billion years after the Big Bang has scientists confused how these cosmic titans got so big so quickly.

How can a black hole pull in light when light isn’t a physical thing? – Will, age 8, Victoria

Black holes can swallow stars, planets and even merge with other black holes, but could a massive one swallow the entire universe?

Superfast changes to the intensity of a jet blasting out from a small black hole have been detected for the first time.

For the first time, astronomers have spotted small-scale super-fast changes in a jet of super-energetic plasma jet blasting out from a small black hole.

NASA has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is located 400 million light-years away.

In addition to the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer also worked on many other areas of physics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

Tapping into cosmic X-rays, NASA's IXPE satellite has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is tucked away deep in space.