Black Hole ‘Wind’ Influences Evolution of Its Host Galaxy
A newly published study is the first to directly connect a galaxy’s actively ‘feeding’ black hole to features found at much larger physical scales, revealing…
A newly published study is the first to directly connect a galaxy’s actively ‘feeding’ black hole to features found at much larger physical scales, revealing…
New research based on x-ray data from Chandra shows how an unusual form of cosmic precipitation can affect the growth and evolution of galaxies, slowing…
In a new study, astrophysicists provide for the first time solutions to decades-old equations that describe conditions as two black holes in a binary system…
A newly published study details the discovery of the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered a newly cosmic object that may help provide answers to some long-standing questions about how black holes…
Using NASA’s NuSTAR and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescopes astronomers have measured the strength of ultra-fast winds from a supermassive black hole, proving that the winds are…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the ROSAT X-ray satellite’s all-sky survey, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a distinct…
Astronomers used VLA data, combined with VIMOS IFU data and HST imaging to reveal that a supermassive black hole is explosively heating and blasting around…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics provides new insights from deep VLA data on the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS…
A team of astronomers from Yale University have identified the first “changing look” quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its…
In a new study, astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found that a small protostellar-like core of only 0.1 solar-masses can develop in only a…
This newly released image from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array shows two colliding galaxies, collectively called Arp 299, located 134 million light-years away. Each of…
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers detail an unusual repeating light signal from a distant quasar that they say is most likely…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking outburst from supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers…
A new study examines in what sense a neutron star-black hole binary could be the ‘holy grail’ for testing gravity. The intermittent light emitted by…
Using data from NASA’s Swift satellite and observations from many other facilities, an international team of astronomers has discovered an unusual source of light in…
Using three NASA satellites, astronomers have revealed the first evidence that the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A*) may be producing neutrinos. The giant…
Using the MAGIC telescopes at La Palma, astronomers have recorded an extreme event coming from the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole located in…