black hole

‘The dawn of a new era in astronomy’ - Harvard What the quest to image black holes could tell us about our universe Not long ago, the idea of photographing a black hole was as quixotic as photographing a unicorn. Now, scientists have not one but two images of two different supermassive black...

Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit - Space Black holes can have a little star gas, as a treat. This black hole's parents never told it not to play with its food. An astronomer thinks he's spotted a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf sending out blazes of light...