NASA looked back at the first Black Hole ever photographed, and found a big surpriseThe universe keeps reshaping our cosmic perspective. When the Event Horizon Telescope captured the historic first image of a black hole in ...
27 Jun, 2026, 07.15 PM IST
This powerful UFO isn’t alien life, it’s a black hole unleashing a cosmic stormA mysterious object speeding across the universe might look like a UFO, but the real story is even more fascinating. Scientists have discov...
18 Jun, 2026, 09.01 PM IST
Intergalactic predators? James Webb data hints supermassive black holes may act like cosmic killers, preventing star birth in distant galaxiesNew research reveals that active supermassive black holes can suppress star formation in neighboring galaxies across vast intergalactic dis...
26 Feb, 2026, 11.58 AM IST
How Giant Stars May Create the Supermassive Black Holes at the Centres of GalaxiesAstronomers are rethinking how supermassive black holes formed so quickly after the Big Bang. New evidence suggests that either giant stars...
12 Feb, 2026, 04.09 PM IST
Scientists spot brightest record-breaking flare ever from a distant supermassive black holeScientists have captured the brightest flare ever recorded from a supermassive black hole, radiating as brilliantly as 10 trillion suns. Th...
04 Nov, 2025, 07.32 PM IST
Supermassive black hole, 6,00,000 times the mass of Sun, is heading towards the Milky Way. When is the collision likely to happen?Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...
14 Feb, 2025, 04.26 PM IST
Cosmic tale: How primordial clouds might rewrite black hole historyThe discovery of UHZ-1, a powerful quasar from 13.2 billion years ago, challenges conventional theories about the formation of supermassive...
31 Dec, 2023, 12.02 PM IST
- Supermassive stars may have been born amid globular clusters
London, June 24 (IANS) Astronomers have proposed a new theory that attempts to explain the existence of peculiar chemical elements in ancie...
24 Jun, 2018, 07.22 PM IST
Fastest growing black hole of the universe discoveredThe astronomers have looked back more than 12 billion years to the early dark ages of the universe, when this supermassive black hole was e...
16 May, 2018, 12.43 PM IST
- How supermassive black holes prevent star formation
London, Jan 10 (IANS) Scientists have found evidence that supermassive black holes prevent formation of stars in some smaller galaxies, in ...
10 Jan, 2018, 03.37 PM IST
- Infant stars found near Milky Way's supermassive black hole
New York, Nov 29 (IANS) In a surprise discovery, astronomers have spotted telltale signs of 11 low-mass stars forming perilously close -- w...
29 Nov, 2017, 12.47 PM IST
- Chinese space telescope to observe 'big eaters'
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) China's new space telescope will probe many mysteries of the universe, including the belching "big eaters" -- active...
29 May, 2017, 11.35 AM IST
- Stars born in winds from supermassive black holes spotted
London, March 28 (IANS) Astronomers have observed for the first time stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from su...
28 Mar, 2017, 12.35 PM IST
Massive black hole spotted binging on star for a decadeAs it travels inwards to be ingested by the black hole, the material heats up to millions of degrees and generates a distinct X-ray flare.
07 Feb, 2017, 01.07 PM IST
- 'Brightest supernova' result of giant black hole destroying star
New York, Dec 13 (IANS) An intense flare detected last year in a distant galaxy about four billion light years from Earth, considered to be...
13 Dec, 2016, 05.59 PM IST
Gravitational waves can tell how black holes are bornThe study combined simulations which aims to create a realistic simulation of the known universe with a model to calculate gravitational wa...
27 Jun, 2016, 01.24 PM IST
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array satellite observatory discovers five 'supermassive' black holesHigh-energy x-rays found for five of the black holes confirmed that they had been hidden by dust and gas.
06 Jul, 2015, 01.12 PM IST