Wide Angle: Black Holes, Big and Small
Black holes are considered to be the gravitational behemoths of the Universe. However, they don't all come in one size. We might have an ancient supermassive one lurking in the center of our galaxy, but microscopic black holes with a lifespan of a fraction of a second could be possible in the guts of particle colliders. If there's a range of different black holes, how are each type created and how do we go about finding them? Keep up to date with the most recent black hole science with this special Wide Angle.
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'David and Goliath' Black Hole Clashes Analyzed
What happens when one black hole takes on another 100 times more massive? The answer will test the limits of Einstein's General Relativity.
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Black Holes Merge With a Flash of Light
Just like mega-corporations, a couple of the countless supermassive black holes scattered across the universe have a merger about once a year -- but they're incredibly secretive about it.
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Where Have the Baby Black Holes Gone?
Small stellar-mass black holes are missing from the Milky Way, but researchers suspect they never existed.
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Supermassive Black Hole Kicked Out of Galaxy
Big black holes aren't known for budging, which is why the new finding is so unusual.
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Can a Black Hole Have an 'Aurora'?
According to two Japanese researchers, we might be able to spot an 'aurora' crowning the poles of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. But this isn't your average aurora.
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The Mystery 'Middle Child' of the Black Hole Family
In a galaxy, not so far away, two elusive intermediate black holes may have been spotted by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Intermediate Black Hole Implicated in Star's Death
Black holes are well known for their destructive nature, happily eating anything that strays too close. But after an epic astro-detective mystery, a white dwarf star was killed by what appears to be the most elusive of the black hole family: the "intermediate" black hole.
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Supermassive Black Holes: Galactic Killers?
Black holes get a bad rap, and often its deserved, especially when the supermassive behemoth at the center of your galaxy is blowing away all the star-forming fuel.
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'Black Hole Blowback' Could Impact Galactic Evolution : Big Pic
Languishing in a galactic nuclei 50 million light years away is a voracious eater, destroying stars, but possibly building its host galaxy.
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Black Holes Face Off In Galactic Death Match : Big Pic
In a few million years, in a galaxy far, far away, two black holes will collide, generating gravitational waves of epic proportions. Hold tight, this fight is about to get super-massive!
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Did 'Dark Stars' Spawn Supermassive Black Holes?
Dark matter makes up the majority of the mass of our universe and 13 billion years ago, dark matter may have fueled the earliest stars. Could these stars have been the seed for supermassive black holes?
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Man-Made (But Very Tiny) Black Holes Possible
Did you hear the one about the particle accelerator that created a micro-black hole?
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Simulated Black Holes May Prove Hawking's Theory
By cramming several thousand superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDS), which guide light down a track much like a rail guides trains, scientists hope to simulate the effects of a black hole.
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First Ever 'Black Hole' Created on Earth
A black hole has been fabricated in the laboratory, mimicing the curvature of space-time, creating an event horizon that swallows electromagnetic radiation.
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