Articles about black holes

LIGO starts its fourth round of searching for gravitational waves and black holes

After three years of upgrading and waiting, due in part to the coronavirus pandemic, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has… Read More

Seattle-area high school senior awarded $250,000 for gravitational wave research

Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest… Read More

Black hole or neutron star? Gravitational waves bring a cosmic conundrum to light

Telltale ripples in the fabric of spacetime have revealed the existence of a cosmic object that scientists can’t definitively classify.… Read More

Year in Science: Revisit a black hole and other sights that weren’t seen before 2019

What will people remember about the year 2019 in the year 3019? Just as they’re likely to recall 1969 as… Read More

A double whammy of gravitational waves sparks a burst of black hole speculation

Two detections of gravitational waves, separated by a mere 21 minutes, set off a flurry of excitement among astronomers today.… Read More

Has LIGO detected its first smash-up of black hole and neutron star? Stay tuned

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, has detected mergers of black holes, and even a couple of neutron star… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Picturing black holes; Cloud City Tech Meetup; and classic arcade games

–One of the biggest scientific feats was accomplished this year when a team of astronomers captured an image of a… Read More

LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a black hole eating a neutron star

The science teams for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and Europe’s Virgo detector today laid out the details… Read More

Scientists unveil Event Horizon Telescope’s first image of a galaxy’s monster black hole

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists today shared the first picture to show the immediate surroundings of a galaxy’s supermassive black hole,… Read More

LIGO and Virgo detectors get in sync for gravitational-wave hunt that’ll last a year

Physicists won’t be fooling around on April 1 at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Washington state and Louisiana, or… Read More

Scientists add four black hole collisions to LIGO’s list, including the biggest so far

Four more mergers of black holes, including the biggest one recorded to date, have been added to a catalog generated… Read More

Einstein’s right again: Star obeys relativity as it whirls around Milky Way’s black hole

News Brief: A 26-year-long observational campaign provides clear evidence of the effect that general relativity has on the motion of… Read More

Antarctic IceCube observatory tracks a single neutrino to solve cosmic ray puzzle

An array of detectors buried under a half-mile-wide stretch of Antarctic ice has traced the path of a single neutrino… Read More

The way we think of black holes just might be in for a radical change … again

After decades’ worth of mystery, it feels as if physicists are finally closing in on the nature of black holes,… Read More

NASA’s Rossi X-ray probe makes a quiet exit after spending 22 years in orbit

News Brief: A month after the breakup of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab, another spacecraft went to its fiery doom today… Read More

Gravitational waves get to play a starring role in ‘Black Hole Apocalypse’ on TV

Black holes are the collapsed stars of the show on “Black Hole Apocalypse,” a two-hour “NOVA” presentation that’s premiering Wednesday… Read More

Andromeda Galaxy gets photobombed by a couple of monster black holes farther out

It turns out that even galaxies can be photobombed. Imagery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes reveal what… Read More

LIGO gravitational-wave hunters get lucky and find smallest black hole merger

It took months to figure it out, but the scientists in charge of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO,… Read More

Europe’s Virgo detector picks up its first gravitational wave and nails down locale

Astronomers have detected their fourth gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes, but this one marks a new… Read More

This black hole crash expands the frontier for gravitational wave hunters at LIGO

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory has detected its third confirmed black hole merger, and this one’s a doozy: LIGO’s latest discovery… Read More

NASA picks IXPE: Space telescope will study X-ray fingerprints of black holes

NASA is committing $188 million to build and launch a space telescope to observe patterns in the X-ray radiation emanating… Read More

LIGO gets lit up again by gravitational waves from another black hole crash

It looks as if gravitational-wave watchers are in for a bumpy, beautiful ride. Scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,… Read More

By Deutsch: Ute Kraus, Physikdidaktik Ute Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Tempolimit Lichtgeschwindigkeit, (Milchstraßenpanorama im Hintergrund: Axel Mellinger) English: Ute Kraus, Physics education group Kraus, Universität Hildesheim, Space Time Travel, (background image of the milky way: Axel Mellinger) [CC BY-SA 2.0 de (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/de/deed.en) or CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

Maybe black holes (and wormholes) aren’t as monstrous as we thought

Black holes may have gotten a bad rap. And wormholes just might be a realistic way to travel Star Trek-style… Read More

Incredibly huge, 12-billion-sun massive black hole found – and it grew big, fast

Interstellar‘s bad boy (and central plot device) has got nothing on this astronomical discovery. A mammoth black hole — and… Read More

Podcast: Astrophysicist Katie Mack explains the universe to journalist Glenn Fleishman

We’d all like to know more about the universe, and on Jan. 13, Dr. Katie Mack, a postdoctoral researcher of dark… Read More