Outbursts From Supermassive Black Hole Transform Exoplanets
A team of astrophysicists and planetary scientists has predicted that Neptune-like planets located near the center of the Milky Way galaxy have been transformed into…
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Astronomers Capture Clearest Infrared Image To Date of the Center of the Milky Way
A research team has published a new study lead by Pat Roche, professor of astrophysics at The University of Oxford, and Chris Packham, associate professor…
These Unusual Black Holes Offer an Infinite Number of Possible Futures
In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, she can calculate its future for…
S0-2 Will Test Einstein Theory and Potentially Reveal New Gravitational Models
Astronomers have the “all-clear” for an exciting test of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, thanks to a new discovery about S0-2’s star status. Up until…
New Simulation Provides First Hints of What Supermassive Black Hole Mergers Will Look Like
A new simulation of supermassive black holes–the behemoths at the centers of galaxies–uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding…
Chandra Shows Supermassive Black Holes Are Outgrowing Their Galaxies
The biggest black holes in the Universe are growing faster than the rate of stars being formed in their galaxies, according to two new studies…
ALMA Reveals Rotating Dense Molecular Torus Around an Active Supermassive Black Hole
High resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of…
Chandra Identifies X-Ray Emission from the Nuclear Region of Arp 220
The galaxy Arp 220 is ultraluminous (defined as having more than about 300 times the luminosity of our own galaxy) and, at a distance of…
First Evidence Black Holes Regulate Star Formation in Massive Galaxies
An International team with participation by researchers with close links to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the University of La Laguna, obtains the…
Astronomers Believe Hostile Black Hole Winds Create New Molecules
The existence of large numbers of molecules in winds powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has puzzled astronomers since they were…
New Research Sheds Light on How Mass Transfers to Black Holes
New research shows the first evidence of strong winds around black holes throughout bright outburst events when a black hole rapidly consumes mass. The study,…
MUSE Instrument Reveals a Black Hole Hiding in Star Cluster NGC 3201
Astronomers using ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very…
Hubble Views Supermassive Black Hole Blowing Huge Gas Bubbles
Researchers using a suite of telescopes including the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a supermassive black hole blowing huge bubbles of hot, bright gas…
Astronomers Reveal Evidence for Higher Black Hole Spin in Radio-Loud Quasars
Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high-speed jets…
Chandra Reveals Supermassive Black Hole ‘Turning Off and On’
A rapidly growing black hole — known as an active galactic nuclei — has been seen turning off and then on again. This supermassive black…
SETI Homes In On Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102
Recent observations of a mysterious and distant object that emits intermittent bursts of radio waves so bright that they’re visible across the universe provide new…
Supercomputer Provides New Insight Into Black Hole Jets
Through first-of-their-kind supercomputer simulations, researchers, including a Northwestern University professor, have gained new insight into one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astronomy: the…
Astronomers Reveal Scientific Results from NASA’s SOFIA Airborne Telescope
Astronomers from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, Northwestern University, and the University of Maryland were on hand at the 231st meeting of the…