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`Gigantic gamma-rays blasted from Milky Way’s core`

New evidence of ghostly gamma-ray beams suggests that the Milky Way’s central black hole was much mo...

3-telescope interferometry reveals how black holes are fuelled

The observation was led by Gerd Weigelt, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy ...

`Pakistan like a black hole for American aid`

The US has provided a whooping USD 24 billion in aid to Pakistan in last decade.

Massive black holes shut down star formation

All large galaxies have a massive black hole at their centre, each millions of times the mass of a s...

Scientists watch black hole feast on unlucky star

Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ...

Remarkable outburst from old black hole captured

Astronomers have observed an extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole in a nearby galaxy, whi...

Black holes `eat binary star partners` to grow

There are two ways to grow a supermassive black hole: with gas clouds and with stars.

Now, a new theory on size of black holes!

Planetary scientists have come up with a new theory on the size of black holes -- claiming some of t...

How monster black holes shape their galaxies

Astronomers have been mystified by the curious correlation that exists between the mass of a galaxy’...

Stellar mass black hole discovered in Andromeda

Astrophysicists studying X-rays emitted a long time ago in a far away galaxy, has unmasked a stellar...

Fastest wind from stellar-mass black hole recorded

Scientists have clocked the fastest wind yet discovered blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass bla...

Fermi telescope unveils gamma-ray bursts’ highest power side

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recorded the highest energy portion of the gamma-ray bursts,...

A rare black hole that survived galaxy destruction

Astronomers have spotted a rare mid-weight black hole some 290 million light-years from Earth.

Milky Way’s black hole grazing on asteroids

The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids.

How black holes fire gas jets into space

Scientists are a step closer to figuring out how black holes can fire superfast gas bullets into spa...

Black hole caught firing gas ‘bullets’ into space

Researchers have now captured the exact moment when a black hole in our galaxy triggered gigantic an...

‘Eye shaped’ galaxy staring from space

Scientists have captured the image of a nearby galaxy bearing resemblance to an eye, which contains ...

Milky Way`s black hole may soon eat up a gas cloud

A newly found object hurtling towards the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is...

NASA discovers black hole with `heartbeat`

NASA has now found another black hole, but it is the tiniest one and with a heart beat.

`Doomed gas cloud rushing toward black hole`

Astronomers have spied a giant gas cloud with several times the mass of Earth accelerating towards t...

Cold streams of gas pushed growth of black holes

A steady diet of cold, thin streams of gas are what pushed the rapid growth of early supermassive bl...

Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet

Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist each one 10 billion times the size of o...

Birth of black hole `recorded`

Astronomers have for the first time produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration...

NASA discovers details of black hole`s origin

Scientists has discovered new details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place million...

Hubble telescope finds disc around black hole

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope were able to find a distant dusty disc slowly spiralling...

Monster black hole in our galaxy eating worlds

A super massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is gradually destroying entire worlds on a...

Black holes surrounded by `dust clouds`

Fat doughnut-shaped dust shrouds that obscure about half of supermassive black holes could be the re...

`Life may be possible in supermassive black holes`

Supermassive black holes are known to be absolutely uninhabitable and the most destructive force in ...

‘Bullets’ of gas around supermassive black hole

The spacecrafts have revealed huge ‘bullets’ of gas being driven away from the ‘gravitational monste...

Massive black holes found in distant galaxies

The find of supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies suggest that central bla...

Astronomers find supermassive black holes

Astronomers have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes in a spiral galaxy similar to the Mil...

Astronomers discover black hole swallowing a star

A black hole described as a "cosmic monster" lurking at the heart of a galaxy has been recorded as i...

Earliest ever quasar discovered

Quasars are incredibly bright sources of energy thought to be the hot centres of young galaxies swi...

Bright galaxy sheds light on early Universe

The most distant quasar ever seen sent light 870 million years after the Big Bang.

Black hole shreds star, sparking gamma ray flash

A monster black hole shredded a Sun-like star, producing a strangely long-lasting flash of gamma ray...

Star-eating black hole sends flash from distant ga

A bright gamma-ray flash seen in March came from a distant galaxy nearly four billion light years aw...

NASA telescope finds earliest black holes at dawn

Black holes are objects whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them.

Nearby galaxy has two active black holes

Scientists using NASA`s Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersi...

Mini black holes `pass through Earth everyday`

They pass through the Earth almost everyday without causing any damage to our planet.

Has Black Hole wiped out all alien life?

A phenomenon known as a white dwarf hypernova could have sucked alien life into a black hole.

Black holes `blow away gas`

Radiation from black holes can push away the gas they feed on explaining why they go quiescent.

`No link between dark matter, black holes’

A new study has found that there is no direct connection between black holes and dark matter.

`Biggest ever` black hole discovered

Astronomers discovered what they say is the biggest ever black hole which weighs the same as 6.8 bil...

Black hole big enough to swallow solar system

M87 black hole is big enough to swallow entire solar system and weighs as much as 6.8 billion suns.

Supermassive black hole `discovered` in dwarf galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a nearby dwarf galaxy - Henize 2-10.

Milky Way`s smallest black holes `don`t exist`

A new study has revealed that black holes a few times the mass of sun may not exist to begin with.

Astronomers find nearby baby black hole

Scientists have identified a young black hole formed from an exploding star witnessed 30 years ago.

Small black hole called microquasar `discovered`

Astronomers have discovered a small black hole, called a microquasar, weighing only as much as a sta...

‘Magnetar’ challenges stellar evolution, black hole theory

A neutron star has challenged the stellar evolution theories and the birth of black holes.

‘Every black hole may hold a hidden universe’

A hidden universe could exist inside every black hole, say scientists.

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