Advanced LIGO Looks to Reveal the Mystery of Merging Black Holes
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 astronomers determine an accurate age for the Fermi Bubbles and how they came to be. For the supermassive black hole at…
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”…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…