Trippy NASA video shows two black holes interacting
NASA has created a visualization of what happens when two black holes pass one another, showing how the gravity of each warps the accretion disk of the other.
Hubble identifies a 10-billion-year-old pair of quasars in merging galaxies
A new study using Hubble has identified not one but two pairs of quasars in galaxies which are merging, giving clues about the formation of galaxies.
Mesmerizing image of black hole reveals magnetic field
The first image of a black hole just became even more fascinating. At the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy is a supermassive black hole about 38 billion kilometers…
Could supermassive black holes be formed from dark matter?
How did supermassive black holes form in the early universe? Dark matter could hold the key.
See a map of 25,000 supermassive black holes in distant galaxies
It might look like a map of stars, but each dot on this map of the night sky represents a supermassive black hole, each in a different distant galaxy.
Stuff of nightmares: Black holes one hundred billion times the mass of the sun
If the idea of a black hole millions of times the mass of our sun makes you uncomfortable then we have bad news.
Colliding black holes could explode in epic light flares
Weird things happen when black holes merge