PARIS, April 11, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled ...

Discovery of extreme quasi-periodic eruptions in a newly accreting massive black hole. Nature Astronomy , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02523-9 Cite This Page : ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of most galaxies, their very nature makes them difficult to spot and study. In contrast to ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said Friday.

A group of physicists has proposed a new way of thinking about black holes by mapping out intricate “supermazes” – theoretical structures that provide a fresh blueprint for understanding the ...

Albert Einstein refused to believe black holes could exist, even though his own theory showed they did. Today, their existence has been proved but they remain one of the greatest mysteries in ...

Doing the 92 is Daniel Storey’s odyssey to every English football league club in a single season. This is club 76/92. The best way to follow his journey and read all of the previous pieces is by ...

Black holes are bounded by outer barriers called event horizons that prevent us from ever viewing their interiors or their hearts, singularities at which all known laws of physics collapse.

While he offers several explanations for what could cause the universe to rotate, he focuses mainly on the hypothesis that it is inside a gigantic black hole. Because black holes naturally rotate ...

Black holes as a guide By early 2022, I had built a black hole model to use as a guide. It could point out environments with the right kind of black holes to produce the greatest number of planets ...

Astronomers first suspected the presence of a black hole in M87 in 1978, when Peter Young and his team observed unusual gravitational effects. However, limitations in ground-based telescopes delayed ...