Discovery of a Huge Wandering Black Hole a Space Jaws
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it. The sneaky black hole betrayed its presence in a newly identified tidal disruption […]
‘Fastest-Feeding’ Black Hole of the Early Universe Found! But Does it Break the Laws of Physics?
The discovery could hold the key to the origin of supermassive black holes. The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole’s voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million […]
Stupendously Large: How Big Can Black Holes Get?
Astronomers are spotting a new class of giant black holes that dwarf even the supermassive ones found at the centre of galaxies. Could there be some even more monstrous lurking out there in the darkness of space? At the centre of our galaxy lives a gargantuan black hole. It is as wide as our Sun […]
NASA Warns of “Invisible Monster On the Loose” Traveling at High Speed Through Space
There’s an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long “contrail” of newborn stars, twice the […]