Chandra Views Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Rejecting Food
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found that less than 1% of the material in the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole’s gravitational grasp…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found that less than 1% of the material in the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole’s gravitational grasp…
By comparing data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared observations by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, astronomers discovered an almost linear relationship between…
Using more than thirteen years observations from Hubble, astronomers have created a time-lapse movie of a 5,000-light-year-long jet of superheated gas as it is ejected…
By being able to measure the distance between the black hole and the accretion disc, astronomers have developed a new method for measuring spin in…
Using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, astronomers watch in real time as a gas cloud is being ripped apart by the…
New research presented at the 10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves suggests that stellar collisions between massive stars with masses between 200 and 300…
Using two instruments known as SINFONI and UVES, astronomers were able to view a distant galaxy feeding on nearby gas, revealing how the galaxy itself…
Using the combined power of the Unit Telescopes of ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gathered new data on dust around the black hole at…
A newly published study bridges the gap between theory and black hole observation, confirming how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light by demonstrating that…
Using data from 152 observations of Chandra spanning over 13 years, researchers discovered twenty-six new stellar-mass black hole candidates in Andromeda, also known as M31….
NuSTAR data reveals that the once active supermassive black hole at the center of the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is now dormant,…
A newly published study suggests that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
In a newly published study, physicists take singularity out of black holes, suggesting that black holes could serve as portals. LSU physicist and Center for…
Using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, scientists have detected and analyzed a variety of simple molecules at the center of Milky Way, allowing them to probe…
According to a newly published study from Caltech astrophysicist Anthony Piro, a new kind of cosmic flash may reveal the birth of a black hole….
Using data from the Very Large Array, astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming…
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once every two and a half hours, show that the binary’s…
By using certain types of active black holes that lie at the center of many galaxies, researchers have developed a method with the potential to…