Hubble Reveals a Supermassive Black Hole Kicked Out of Galactic Core
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…
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NASA’s Swift Reveals a Star’s Plunge into a Black Hole
Using observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, a team of astronomers detail the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li. Some 290 million years ago, a star much…
Astronomers Discover a Black Hole “Choking” on Stellar Debris
A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris. The black hole is located…
Chandra Discovers a Star in the Closest Known Orbit Around a Black Hole
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA’s NuSTAR and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), a team of astronomers reveals evidence for a…
Astronomers Show Radiation Helped Fuel The First Massive Black Holes
A newly published study adds evidence to one theory of how ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed…
New Hubble Observations Help Date the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
New Hubble observations help astronomers determine an accurate age for the Fermi Bubbles and how they came to be. For the supermassive black hole at…
Scientists Measure Temperature Swings of Black Hole Winds for the First Time
A team of scientists has measured rapidly varying temperatures in hot gas emanating from around a black hole for the first time. These ultrafast “winds”…
ALMA Observes a Black Hole Producing Star-Making Fuel
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers reports observing jets of hot gas blasting out from the black hole in the center of…
Astronomers Discover an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveal new evidence that an intermediate-mass black hole weighing 2,200 Suns is hiding at the center of the…
Chandra Reveals a Decade-Long Sustained Tidal Disruption Event
A trio of X-ray observatories has captured a remarkable event in their data: a decade-long binge by a black hole almost two billion light years…
Radio Weak Blazars Challenge the Basic Explanation of Blazars
Using the Fermi catalog of very high energy sources and the WISE infrared sky catalog, astronomers have found two BL Lac blazars with no apparent…
Astronomers Discover a Cosmic Particle Accelerator in Abell 3411 and 3412
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, a team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever seen…
New NASA Mission to Study Black Holes, Cosmic X-ray Mysteries
A new NASA mission will allow astronomers to explore the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar…
Hubble Reveals a Black Hole Ripping Apart a Passing Star
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal a rapidly spinning black hole ripping apart a passing star that came too close. An extraordinarily brilliant point…
Distant Galaxy SPT 0346-52 Churning Out Stars at Remarkable Rate
Using several telescopes including Chandra, astronomers have shown that a galaxy in the early Universe called SPT0346-52 is undergoing an extraordinary burst of star formation….
UVES Instrument Views Fingerprint of the Early Universe
The UVES instrument shows the light from quasar HE0940-1050 after it has traveled through the intergalactic medium. The most massive galaxies in the Universe host…
NASA’s Chandra Views a Stellar Circle of Life, Cygnus X-3
A newly published study reveals that the supernova explosion that formed either the black hole or neutron star in Cygnus X-3 kicked the binary system…
NASA’s SOFIA Set To Study New Frontiers in the Solar System and Beyond
NASA’s SOFIA flying Observatory set to study planets, comets and asteroids orbiting other stars and supermassive black holes. NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA,…