The image reveals a glowing, donut-shaped ring at the Milky Way’s heart.
The findings will help scientists trace a black hole’s evolution as it feeds on stellar material.
A new approach could make it possible detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions of years.
The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “the Cow,” may offer astronomers a new way to spot infant compact objects.
Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes.
Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease.
Gravitatational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars.
Regardless of size, all black holes experience similar accretion cycles, a new study finds.
Certain ultralight bosons would be expected to put the brakes on black holes, but new results show no such slowdown.
New image of M87 reveals how it looks in polarized light.
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