The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

"Unexpectedly, we found that they were spinning too fast to have been formed by galaxy mergers alone. "They must have formed in large part from material falling in, growing the black hole smoothly ...

Measuring balck hole spin isn't easy Despite being cosmic monsters that shape the entire galaxies around them, supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Black holes and their archaeology The results of the SDSS Survey of mass measurements of hundreds of black holes were a surprise, according to Fries. That's because the spin rates reveal something ...

Gravitational waves are unlocking the origins of black holes, linking spin shifts to sequential mergers in star clusters.

Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser/N. Bartmann. There’s a Universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of supermassive black ...