New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

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The three examples the team highlighted in a new study describe supermassive black holes feasting on stars more than three times as massive as our own sun. The events, dubbed “extreme nuclear ...

Properties of “Lite” Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates in LIGO-Virgo’s Third Observing Run. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2025; 985 (2): L37 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adc5f8 ...

Black holes generally come in two sizes: big and really big. As they are so dense, they are measured in terms of mass rather than size, and astronomers call these two groups of stellar mass black ...

A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core or a wormhole throat instead of a singularity. This would be a spacetime ...

Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, consuming everything — even light — that falls inside them with no hope of escape. But in 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that in fact ...

What Are Black Hole Supermazes? Supermazes come from M-theory, an umbrella idea that includes multiple versions of string theory, in which our universe contains 11 dimensions—not just the four ...