A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its…
Read more Runaway Black Hole Escapes Its Galaxy—and It’s Leaving Baby Stars in Its WakeEvery large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole at its center, each one emitting powerful winds of hot gas from its event horizon. Our galaxy should be no…
Read more After Decades of Searching, Scientists Make a Major Breakthrough in the Mystery Surrounding Our Galaxy’s Black HoleAll galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. A new finding doesn’t contradict that observation, but it does suggest that we’ve been overestimating just how heavy…
Read more Turns Out the First Supermassive Black Holes Weren’t So Supermassive, Research SuggestsA team of researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) is claiming that the groundbreaking image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is…
Read more Breakthrough Image of Milky Way Black Hole Is Flawed, New Analysis SuggestsNow two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work—contained in a pair of recent papers by Christoph Kehle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ryan Unger of Stanford University and…
Read more Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are PossibleSign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — The first photo ever taken of…
Read more Fuzzy first photo of a black hole gets a sharp makeover | CNNSign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Two supermassive black holes have been…
Read more A galactic merger brought a pair of supermassive black holes together | CNN
