Scientists Detected a Black Hole Flare So Massive It Outshines 10 Trillion Suns
About 10 billion years ago, a black hole decided it needed to eat. The meal, a star roughly 30 times the mass of the Sun, didn’t stand a chance. As ...
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We Might Actually See a Black Hole Blow Up in the Next 10 Years
Black holes have a reputation for swallowing everything in sight. But physicists now say there’s a 90% chance one will explode in the next decade, and we may finally get ...
Astronomers discovered a whole new class of black holes
Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to act as an anchor for ...
The largest black hole jet ever discovered is three times bigger than the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole jet that is three times bigger than the Milky Way. The jet is known as Quasar J1601+3102, and it was first spotted by ...
A roaming black hole just demolished a star and sucked it dry
The drama began in 2024, when a sky-scanning telescope known as the Zwicky Transient Facility picked up a sudden brightening in the night sky. But there was a twist: the ...
