Wandering Supermassive Black Holes Whizzing Through the Universe
Every massive galaxy is believed to host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) at its center. Its mass is correlated with the mass of the inner…
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Cracking a Mystery of Massive Black Holes and Quasars
A discovery that provides new insight into how galaxies evolve. At the center of galaxies, like our own Milky Way, lie massive black holes surrounded…
Magnetic Structures Observed Near Supermassive Black Hole
A new view of the region closest to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) has shown important details…
This Is What It Looks Like When a Black Hole Snacks on an Unlucky Star
Analyzing observations of an X-ray flare and fitting the data with theoretical models, University of Arizona astronomers documented a fatal encounter between an unlucky star…
Primordial Black Holes the Size of an Atom: What New Experimental Evidence Suggests
Since the earliest times, human beings have wanted to explain the most unpredictable and disturbing phenomena in the universe. Although the study of astronomy has…
Pulsar Timing Array Explores Mystery Gravitational Waves From Supermassive Black Holes
Galaxies host supermassive black holes, which weigh millions to billions of times more than our Sun. When galaxies collide, pairs of supermassive black holes at…
“X-Ray Magnifying Glass” Provides Unprecedented Look at Black Hole in the Early Universe
By taking advantage of a natural lens in space, astronomers have captured an unprecedented look at X-rays from a black hole system in the early…
Physicists’ Total Surprise: Discover Black Holes Exert a Pressure on Their Environment
Physicists at the University of Sussex have discovered that black holes exert a pressure on their environment, in a scientific first. In 1974 Stephen Hawking…
Stellar Collision Triggers Supernova Explosion – “This Is the First Time We’ve Actually Seen Such an Event”
Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core of a companion star and caused that…
Astronomers Use “X-Ray Magnifying Glass” To Enhance View of Distant Black Holes
Astronomers have used an “X-ray magnifying glass” to study a black hole system in the early Universe. The amplification and magnification of light by an…
New Simulation Reveals How Galaxies Feed Their Supermassive Black Holes
First model to show how gas flows across universe into a supermassive black hole’s center. Galaxies’ spiral arms are responsible for scooping up gas to…
Advanced Civilizations Could be Using Dyson Spheres to Collect Unimaginable Energy From Black Holes
Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them – they’re also one of the universe’s biggest and most stable energy…
Ripples in Space-Time Detected – Caused by the Death Spiral of a Neutron Star and a Black Hole
First Detection of Gravitational Waves From Black Holes Swallowing Neutron Stars For the first time, scientists have picked up the ripples in space-time caused by…
Patterns of Light Emitted From Accretion Disks Vary Depending on Supermassive Black Hole Mass
The flickering light emitted by astrophysical accretion disks can reveal the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at their center, according to a new…
Spectacular Set of Massive Concentric Rings Around a Black Hole
A spectacular set of rings around a black hole has been captured using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The X-ray images…
Mysterious Flickering Decoded: Supermassive Black Hole Size Revealed by Its Feeding Pattern
The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers report. A new study revealed that the flickering in the brightness observed in…
When Testing Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, Small Modeling Errors Can Add Up Fast
Small modeling errors may accumulate faster than previously expected when physicists combine multiple gravitational wave events (such as colliding black holes) to test Albert Einstein’s…
Astronomers Spot Unusual, Enormous Rings Around a Black Hole
Astronomers spotted an unusual set of rings in X-rays around a black hole with a companion star. These rings are created by light echoes, a…