Black Hole's Behavior Defies the Rules of Astrophysics

Imagine camping in the woods, when you hear what sounds like a chainsaw, but then see that the ruckus is coming from a tiny bird. The experience changes the way you think about little birds, right? And that's exactly what's happened to astronomers, who detected what sounded like a black hole behemoth and found, instead, a black hole baby. Black Hole Basics Astronomers believe black holes -- those reality-warping, light-sucking singular forces of nature -- come in three basic varieties. You