Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes ...
They’re the boogeymen of science fiction, a paradox of science and quite possibly a key to understanding the universe. Scientists have been scrambling to understand the mysterious forces of black ...
When a black hole spins rapidly, it drags the space around it, akin to a whirlpool in water. This phenomenon is called Lense-Thirring precession. Researchers focused on a rare event where a ...
Artist's rendering of the James Webb Telescope in space Editor at Large NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver the goods. Launched on Christmas Day, 2021, it has since sent back a ...
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...