Scientists have been modeling how supermassive black holes form when two smaller black holes ... Now, scientists may have ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense ... in a theoretical process aptly known as spaghettification. In their final stages, enormous stars go out with a bang in massive explosions ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

Natarajan's research explores how black holes form, grow, and shape the universe, along with mapping dark matter in cosmic structures. Black holes are expected to form via two distinct channels.

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...

2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host galaxies of the fuel they need to form new ... Massive Merger ...

which can help better understand how stars form. In a previous study, researchers found that jets from black holes cool the hot gas. Cold, dense gas is where stars are born, so the logic is that ...

The gas and dust swirl together at high speeds, forming the accretion disk that feeds the black hole. The rapid movement of the material causes it to heat up, releasing energy in the form of ...

(If all of this is unsatisfying, know that it keeps scientists awake at night, too.) Scientists know about one way that black holes form, but there may be others. One way to make a black hole is to ...