By successfully simulated the conditions around black holes using a specially designed water bath, a team of astronomers has made a significant leap forward in…
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous…
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in…
By comparing theoretical models to Chandra surveys and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have found evidence that the very earliest supermassive black holes in…
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
Using data from the Large Binocular Telescope and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers watched as a dying star was likely reborn as a…
In a newly published study led by Australian National University, astrophysicists reveal how most of the antimatter in the Milky Way forms. Antimatter is material…
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
Astronomers have discovered a potential recoiling supermassive black hole (CXO J101527.2+625911). This recoiling black hole candidate is located about 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. Supermassive…
Using NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, a team of astronomers reveals that in the late stages of galaxy mergers, so much gas and dust falls toward a…
A team of astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail the discovery of what might be the first LMXB whose compact object is a…
Astronomers reveal evidence of repeated bursts, or eruptions, from a black hole at the center of a large elliptical galaxy located within the core of…
The idea that black holes exist dates back to the 18th century with John Michell and astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace. Later, Einstein used his General…
Astrophysicists have been hard at work trying to determine how black holes can come together and merge. A newly published study from the University of…
Using the Event Horizon Telescope project, observatories around the world are ready to begin measurements of the black hole at the center of the Milky…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of…
A supermassive black hole inside the tiny galaxy Was 49b is challenging astronomers’ ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one. Was 49 is…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of the distant galaxy 3C186. The…