Latest about black holes
The closest black holes to Earth may be lurking in a star cluster visible to the naked eye
Astronomers found evidence of multiple stellar-mass black holes lurking in the nearby Hyades cluster, just 150 light-years from Earth.
For the 1st time, scientists accidentally measure the swirling ring around a black hole
Researchers accidentally stumbled on a way to measure the size of the accretion disks of dust, gas and plasma that surround black holes.
Do black holes really suck in matter?
Black holes can swallow matter, and they grow by accreting gas, dust and even the occasional star. But are they the vacuum-mouthed monsters they are often presented to be?
Will the sun ever become a black hole?
Black hole sun, won't you come? It all depends on a star's mass before it dies.
Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why
Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable 'burping' bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.
Dark matter could be building up inside dead stars — with potentially explosive consequences
Invisible dark matter may be gathering in the ultra-dense innards of neutron stars, potentially causing them to detonate in massive explosions.
A black hole 'assassin' ripped a star to shreds and left its guts strewn about the galaxy
Astronomers studied the remains of a massive star ripped apart by a black hole in an epic astro-forensic murder investigation.
Black hole 'seeds' discovered in the early universe for 1st time ever
The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved.
