This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main types of black hole; stellar mass and supermassive black holes ...

Galaxy NGC 4945 in the constellation of Centaurus (main) and galactic winds flowing out from its supermassive black hole (inset). | Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

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The photo suggests that interstellar 'scraps' of matter are being strewn into space as the hungry black hole chows down on its dinner. "At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive ...

While black holes consume everything, their mirror image—white holes—would do the opposite: expelling energy and matter across space. That point of infinite density may not exist after all.

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey shared the same watering holes on Skye 167 million years ago, say scientists. University of Edinburgh researchers examined dozens of dinosaur ...

(CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what is now Scotland, new research suggests. Lead study author ...