Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Still Smoldering Long After Powerful “Death-Ray” Beam Outburst
Hubble Finds a Smoldering Remnant in a Blast From the Past In some science fiction movies there is a sleeping monster, like Godzilla, who suddenly…
Hubble Finds a Smoldering Remnant in a Blast From the Past In some science fiction movies there is a sleeping monster, like Godzilla, who suddenly…
Researchers will examine three active supermassive black holes – known as quasars – their host galaxies, and their neighborhoods to better detail these distant objects…
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, the first satellite dedicated to measuring…
Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky…
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The…
In these supercomputer simulations, eight stars are seen avoiding a black hole with a mass one million times that of the Sun. The gravity of…
In a first, astronomers may have seen light from the merger of two black holes, providing opportunities to learn about these mysterious dark objects. This…
Our telescopes have never detected a black hole more massive than twenty times the mass of the Sun. Nevertheless, we now know of their existence…
New theory ‘detects’ light in the darkness of a vacuum. Black holes are regions of space-time with huge amounts of gravity. Scientists originally thought that…
Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, “like Pac Man,” in a discovery documenting the collision of the two most…
Key points: An international team of scientists, including Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), have collaborated on a…
Findings could advance understanding of ultra-fast outflows’ role in evolution of galaxies. When supermassive black holes have tantrums, galaxies sit up and take notice. A…
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how…
With the growing catalog of binary black hole mergers, researchers can study the overall spin properties of these systems to uncover how they formed and…
Over the past 6 years, gravitational wave observatories have been detecting black hole mergers, verifying a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity. But…
Further confirmation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is located 55 million light-years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation….
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole. Black holes…
An international team of astrophysicists from South Africa, the UK, France and the US have found large variations in the brightness of light seen from…