Black holes can squash star formation, James Webb Space Telescope finds
"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation in detail."
The top 7 black hole discoveries from 2024
2024 was a big year for black hole science, and Space.com was on duty all year to bring you every major development in our understanding of the universe's most fascinating entities.
Black hole paradox that stumped Stephen Hawking may have a solution, new paper claims
As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests.
NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange ‘sideways’ black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)
Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on its side in a cosmic crime scene.
‘Missing link’ black hole found? Not so fast, new study says
A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.
James Webb Space Telescope catches monster black hole napping after ‘overeating’ in the early universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering after a massive meal like a reveller on Christmas Day.
Black holes that form in ‘reverse Big Bang replays’ could account for dark energy
Black hole formation could be a little Big Bang in reverse, coupling the matter of a dying star with dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Did dark matter help black holes grow to monster sizes in the infant cosmos?
Could dark matter decay have given massive clouds of hydrogen gas the time they needed to birth supermassive black holes seen by the James Webb Space Telescope?
Black holes that shred stars burp out cosmic rays and neutrinos
The highest energy cosmic rays and neutrinos that rain down on Earth may come from white dwarf stars being devoured by black holes
Latest gravitational wave isn’t from neutron stars after all
Recent speculation about the latest gravitational wave experiments suggested they may have seen a neutron star merger, but it’s another black hole smashup