An Unexpected Discovery in Galaxy Messier 101
Using data from the Gemini Observatory, researchers discovered that a small black hole can sustain a hugely voracious appetite while consuming material in an efficient…
Using data from the Gemini Observatory, researchers discovered that a small black hole can sustain a hugely voracious appetite while consuming material in an efficient…
The NASA image of the day shows the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy M81. At the center of the spiral galaxy…
In two new studies, astronomers examine black holes in the Circinus galaxy and spiral galaxy NGC 1313, searching for evidence of medium-sized black holes. Black…
Using data from Chandra and the VLA, astronomers uncovered new evidence for the presence of a jet of high-energy particles blasting out of the Milky…
Using data from the XMM-Newton satellite and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array, astronomers reveal the contents of mysterious black hole jets. An international team of…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have discovered a new type of quasar in which gas appears to be heading away and…
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that formed in the early Universe. The study shows that…
While searching for gravitational waves generated by supermassive black holes merging, astronomers using the Parkes Radio Telescope have discovered new information about the frequency and…
Using an array of radio telescopes, a team of astrophysicists discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy….
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of scientists captured a detailed image of high-density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at…
Using Chandra’s high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011, astronomers reveal for the first time abrupt variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding…
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…
In a newly published study, scientists present a new hypothesis on the nature of black holes, challenging the current “clean” black hole model. A black…
In a newly released study, scientists from the University of Sydney detail a huge outburst of energy that occurred two million years ago from the…
Using data from an intercontinental combination of radio telescopes, astronomers have been able to see massive clumps of cold gas being pushed away from the…
In a new study, scientists report on the first ten identifications of sources serendipitously detected by NuSTAR. NASA’s black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array,…
The first batch of data from NASA’s NuSTAR is now publicly available, providing data on observations obtained during the first two months of the mission…