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Astronomy Oct 28, 2025

Gravitational wave events hint at 'second-generation' black holes

In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports on the detection of two gravitational wave events in October and November of 2024 with unusual black hole ...

Astronomy Oct 13, 2025

Greedy black hole feeds via two spiral arms

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, according to an international team of researchers led by Wout Goesaert (Leiden University, the Netherlands). ...

Astronomy Oct 9, 2025

Expanded black hole collision catalog features nearly 4,000 detailed simulations

SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic events in space, particularly mergers of binary black hole systems, for several decades. Recently, ...

Astronomy Oct 6, 2025

How black holes produce powerful relativistic jets

A hundred years before the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration released the first image of a black hole in 2019—located at the heart of the galaxy M87—astronomer Heber Curtis had already discovered a strange jet protruding ...

Astronomy Oct 1, 2025

Little Red Dots frequently reveal clumpy morphologies, some of which bear hallmarks of active black holes

The discovery of a large population of compact, red objects, now widely known as Little Red Dots (LRDs) is one of the most exciting results by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to date. An international team of astronomers, ...

Astronomy Oct 1, 2025

Infrared data from the James Webb Telescope reveals more structural details of M87's black hole jet

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid them when looking for ...

Astronomy Sep 24, 2025

Primordial black holes may trigger Type Ia supernovae without companion stars

A new article published in The Astrophysical Journal explores a new theory of how Type Ia supernovae, the powerful stellar explosions that astronomers use to measure distances across the universe, might be triggered. Traditionally, ...

Astronomy Sep 19, 2025

Chandra finds black hole that's growing at 2.4 times the Eddington limit

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain how some black holes can reach enormous masses relatively ...

Astronomy Sep 18, 2025

Supermassive black holes observed in the most distant 'dying' massive galaxies, revealing co-evolution

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). ...

Astronomy Sep 17, 2025

XRISM reveals surprisingly sluggish winds from neutron star differ from black hole outflows

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disk around a neutron star and those from material circling supermassive black holes.

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