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Revolutionary imaging of black hole aims to prove they are not ‘evil vacuum cleaners’

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude

The Guardian - UK

Scientists Capture Black Hole Waking Up After 100 Million Years

Astronomers capture a massive black hole waking up like a 'cosmic volcano' after lying dormant for 100 million years.

International Business Times UK

Scientists solve mystery of little red dots seen by James Webb Space Telescope

Using Webb’s advanced instruments, scientists discovered that the little red dots are young black holes wrapped in gas.

Euronews

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Massive supernova explosion may have created a binary black hole

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries."

Space

Black hole butterflies? James Webb telescope spots dozens of black hole 'cocoons' in early universe.

The gaseous cocoons surrounding "little red dots" hint at their true nature, a new James Webb telescope study hints.

LiveScience

NASA X-ray instrument finds black holes act like 'cosmic seesaws' shaping the universe

"We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow."

Space

'One of those rare 'wow' moments': Zombie star near Earth has a rainbow shockwave that 'shouldn't be there'

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow shock" as it zooms through the Milky Way. The cosmic zombie is also ripping apart its partner star like a black hole.

LiveScience

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Strange, 'starved' galaxy died 'a death of 1,000 cuts' in the ancient universe, JWST reveals

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new observations revealed.

LiveScience

Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but tiny black holes in disguise?

LiveScience

'Death by a thousand cuts': James Webb Space Telescope figures out how black hole murdered Pablo's Galaxy

"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow."

Space

Astronomers watch 2 supermassive black holes caught in a twisted dance with never-before-seen jet behavior

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets."

Space

Astronomers baffled by 'mysterious disruptor' with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."

Space

No 10 defends military funding amid warnings of £28bn black hole

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton reportedly told the Prime Minister last year about a £28 billion shortfall between now and 2030.

Evening Standard

NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals the shockingly violent history of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."

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James Webb telescope confirms a supermassive black hole running away from its host galaxy at 2 million mph, researchers say

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing new insights after other telescopes looked at the event.

Space

'Super star' being shredded by black hole releases as much energy as 400 billion suns

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a star."

International Business Times UK

Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Watch a Black Hole Drag Spacetime Into a Wobble

Astronomers have directly observed a spinning black hole twisting spacetime, confirming a century-old prediction of Einstein's theory of relativity.

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7 Medicare Appeals That Take Longer to Process in the First Quarter

If you’re waiting for a decision on a medical claim this winter, you might feel like your paperwork has disappeared into a black hole. While...

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Evening Standard

Armchair astronomers sought to hunt for stars being torn apart by black holes

A new project will capture the night sky over the next 10 years from the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Space

The biggest black hole breakthroughs of 2025

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

Space

Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, scientists say. 'It's definitely not just an exploding star.'

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."

Space

James Webb Space Telescope watches 'Jekyll and Hyde' galaxy shapeshift into a cosmic monster

"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense quantities of energy."

Evening Standard

Black holes to be shown in action in first 3D movies created using AI

Experts in black hole astronomy and artificial intelligence will combine for the project at Heriot-Watt University.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'

"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

LiveScience

James Webb telescope finds supermassive black hole hidden inside 'Jekyll and Hyde' galaxy

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James Webb telescope observations reveal.

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