Black Holes

A rotating black hole is a black hole that possesses angular momentum.

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When Black Holes Don’t Play by the Rules

Two Black Holes Locked in a Death Spiral Imaged in Stunning First

Two Black Holes Caught on Camera Orbiting Each Other for the First Time

This is the world's 1st image of 2 black holes orbiting one another

Scientists capture an image of two black holes circling each other for the first time - EurekAlert!

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other in quasar OJ287. The observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs. In the past, astronomers have only managed to image individual black holes.

Black Holes Have No Hair, But They Do Have Comb Overs

How black holes produce powerful relativistic jets - EurekAlert!

Black holes might hold the key to a 60-year cosmic mystery

Is Dark Energy Born inside Black Holes?

Stars that brush past black holes live longer, stranger lives after their close encounters with death. Survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their violent encounters with the Milky Way's black hole.

Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?

Black Holes and Mysterious Radiation: A 60-Year-Old Cosmic Puzzle May Finally Have an Answer

Giant Stars With Black Holes Inside Them May Have Been Detected For The First Time

Eerie Circles in Space Could Be Blasts From Black Holes

'It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.' Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes

Researchers uncover how galaxies and their black holes grew 12.9 billion light years ago - EurekAlert!

Mysterious “Universe Breaker” Red Dots Could Be Black Holes in Disguise

Black holes just proved Stephen Hawking right with the clearest signal yet

Clearest signal yet from colliding black holes yields most precise confirmation of Hawking’s area theorem - EurekAlert!