Over 47 million light years away, in a galaxy called NGC 4845, there's one hungry black hole. In fact, scientists have watched in awe as, soon after it stirred from dormancy, it chomped away at a planet 30 times the mass of Jupiter. Read More >>
This stunningly trippy object is W49B, a supernova remnant 26,000 light years away from Earth. It's just a thousand yeas old, which in cosmological terms is not even a heartbeat in the life of a human. It may also be the birth place of a newborn black hole, the youngest ever detected in the galaxy. Read More >>
Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns—its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it with infinite hunger. Read More >>
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If you thought space was a peaceful vacuum, think again: scientists have discovered the fastest winds ever observed on a stellar-mass black hole, and they reach an incredible 20 million mph. Read More >>
This is exciting. If everything goes well, we may get the first-ever photo of a black hole really soon. A large number of astronomers are getting ready to achieve this feat using a global network of telescopes: Read More >>
We knew there was a gigantic black hole in the middle of our very own Milky Way. Now we have images of how this monster eats. This video shows it devouring a massive gas cloud. Read More >>
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