Black Hole Archives

August 15, 2025 3:18 PM

New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode

Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that occurred when a massive star tried to swallow a blac...

February 19, 2025 4:26 PM

Webb Telescope provides unprecedented view of our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady flickering of light punctuated by occasional bright flares a...

October 30, 2024 11:38 AM

Astronomers observe black hole that may have formed gently

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent explosion, called a supernova, of a massive dying star. But some, it turns...

September 21, 2024 5:16 PM

NASA releases eerie sound waves from a black hole 250 million light years away

NASA has recorded an eerie audio clip capturing sound waves from a supermassive black hole located 250 million light years away in the Perseus cluster of galaxies. These acoustic waves were transposed up 57 and 58 octaves to make them audible to huma...

June 19, 2024 12:27 PM

Scientists witness a dormant supermassive black hole roar to life

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy resides a supermassive black hole four million times the mass of our sun called Sagittarius A* that some scientists have called a gentle giant because of its quiescence. But someday it could become a beast. Rese...