Black 4.0 compared to a typical black acrylic art paint. Credit: Stuart Semple Beyond its greater light absorption, the paint has also seen a usability upgrade over Semple’s past releases.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

It is impossible to create a black hole with light alone, calculations show 1. Black holes form when extremely dense matter collapses under gravity. Because energy and mass are equivalent ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire display ...

About 99 percent of all the mass released in a tidal disruption event is called nonrelativistic—it moves along at 10 percent the speed of light or less. The remaining 1 percent, however, is very ...

A black hole skulking in the shadows 600 million light-years away in space gave itself away with a dazzling flash, the light of a star it had just gnashed and eaten. Using NASA 's Hubble Space ...

Astronomers have seen the largest jets ever found erupting from a black hole. The giant jet system Porphyrion is 23 million light-years long, equal to 140 side-by-side Milky Way galaxies.

If the warping is significant enough, such as around a black hole, the photon’s straight path through curved space-time will carry it into the black hole, from which it cannot escape.

In 2019, the same team captured an image of the black hole in the galaxy Messier 87, or M87. That image, the first ever taken of a black hole, is now enshrined in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

These feeding supermassive black holes are called quasars. They can be so bright that they outshine the combined light of every star in the galaxy that hosts them. But new research suggests that ...