James Brady+FollowBlack Hole Spotted From the Dawn of Time?!Astronomers just found a black hole that might have formed right after the big bang—no galaxy needed! The James Webb telescope spotted this “nearly naked” monster, which could be the first-ever evidence of a primordial black hole. If true, this discovery would totally shake up what we thought we knew about how the universe began. Imagine black holes popping up before galaxies even existed! Mind = blown. #Science #BlackHole #JamesWebb373Share
megangibson+FollowBlack Hole Gets a Double Zoom RevealImagine using two magnifying glasses to peek at a supermassive black hole 6 billion light-years away! Astronomers just pulled off a wild 'double zoom' using Einstein’s gravitational lensing—one galaxy and one star lined up perfectly to magnify a distant quasar. The result? They spotted weird millimeter radiation flickers, hinting at a hot, magnetic 'corona' swirling around the black hole. Science just keeps getting cooler! #Science #BlackHole #SpaceDiscovery303Share
martinezlaura+FollowBlack Hole’s ‘Heartbeat’ Is Freaking Out NASANASA just caught a black hole pulsing like a cosmic heartbeat, and it’s got scientists scratching their heads. The black hole, IGR J17091-3624, is showing way more X-ray polarization than anyone expected, which means the way matter behaves around it might be totally different from what we thought. Are strong winds or wild speeds to blame? Either way, space just got a lot weirder—and astronomers are rethinking everything they know about black holes. #Science #NASA #BlackHole17628Share
megangibson+FollowOur Galaxy’s Black Hole Is Staring Us DownDid you know the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is spinning at top speed—and its axis is basically pointed right at us? Scientists used machine learning to dig deep into telescope data and found this cosmic monster is not only super fast but also facing Earth almost head-on. No worries, it’s not about to eat us, but it’s wild to think our galaxy’s heart is looking right at us! #Science #MilkyWay #BlackHole171Share
Richard Vaughan+FollowTriple Black Hole Drama Uncovered!Astronomers just found what might be the universe’s first-ever triple black hole system—and caught it in the act of merging! Turns out, two black holes with wildly different sizes collided, but only because a hidden supermassive black hole gave them the push they needed. This cosmic dance was so rare, scientists had to recheck old data to confirm it. Now, we know black holes can form in way more complex ways than we thought! #Science #BlackHole #SpaceDiscovery120Share
martinezlaura+FollowBlack Hole Sparks a Supernova?!Imagine a star and a black hole locked in a cosmic dance, and then—boom!—the star explodes in a supernova, all thanks to the black hole’s wild gravity. Scientists just caught this happening for the first time ever, and it’s got them rethinking how stars die. The craziest part? AI spotted the whole thing, flagging the weird behavior before anyone else. Space is wilder than we thought! #Science #Supernova #BlackHole50Share
James Brady+FollowJWST Just Found the Oldest Black Hole EverThe James Webb Space Telescope just spotted the earliest confirmed black hole, chilling in a galaxy from over 13 billion years ago—just 500 million years after the Big Bang! This galaxy, called CAPERS-LRD-z9 (aka a "Little Red Dot"), is rewriting what we thought we knew about the early universe. Turns out, these ancient black holes might have grown way faster than scientists ever expected. Space nerds, this is as far back as we can see! #Science #JamesWebb #BlackHole202Share
Tamara Jones+FollowThis Black Hole Is an Absolute UnitAstronomers just found a black hole that’s 36 billion times heavier than our Sun—yes, billion! It’s hiding in a galaxy called the Cosmic Horseshoe and totally breaks the usual rules for galaxy size vs. black hole size. Scientists used a wild combo of gravity-bending light and tracking star movements to “weigh” it. This method could help uncover even more of these cosmic beasts as new telescopes come online. Space is full of surprises! #Science #BlackHole #SpaceNews220Share
Richard Vaughan+FollowThis Black Hole Is Breaking All the RulesAstronomers just spotted a black hole so massive, it’s basically the universe’s heavyweight champ—36 billion times the mass of our sun! It’s hiding out in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, and scientists had to invent a new method to even measure it. Turns out, this monster likely formed when two galaxies (and their black holes) merged into one. Wild to think we’re seeing the endgame of galaxy formation! #Science #SpaceNews #BlackHole9211Share
Zachary Gutierrez+FollowStar Escapes Black Hole—Then Goes Back?!A star just pulled off the ultimate cosmic flex: it survived a run-in with a supermassive black hole, escaped, and then came back for seconds! Astronomers spotted two identical flares from the same star, suggesting the black hole took two bites out of it (AT 2022dbl). Now, everyone’s waiting to see if the star will return for a third round in 2026. If it does, it could totally change what we know about how black holes snack on stars. Wild, right? #Science #SpaceMystery #BlackHole8811Share
