Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have uncovered a major clue in the mystery of how black holes produce ...
Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...
As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...
Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration created a ...
A starship driven by a captive black hole sounds like pure science fiction, yet the underlying physics is brutally literal. A tiny, artificial singularity would convert mass into energy with an ...
A proposed interstellar mission envisions sending a gram-scale nanocraft, propelled by a laser-driven lightsail to a nearby black hole, achieving approximately one-third the speed of light. Upon ...