black holes

Benjamin Johnson May 24, 2018 13
Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our sun every two days. The astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to…

Benjamin Johnson May 02, 2018 9
A Columbia University-led team of astrophysicists has discovered a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The finding, which has been published in Nature, is the first to support…

Benjamin Johnson Mar 05, 2018 4
In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, he or she can calculate its future for all time and all space. But a UC Berkeley mathematician has found some…