Scientists Measure the Spin Rates of Supermassive Black Holes
Using the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton telescopes, researchers traced matter as it swirled into a black hole, resolving a long-standing debate about black holes and gaining…
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Supercomputer Simulations Present a New View of Black Hole Jets and Accretion Disks
New 3D simulations performed on powerful supercomputers are helping researchers predicted the formation of accretion disks and relativistic jets that are shaped by the extreme…
Data Suggests Rare Explosion Created Milky Way’s Youngest Black Hole
By tracing the distribution and amounts of different elements in the stellar debris field, scientists were able to compare Chandra data to theoretical models of…
Astronomers Discover a New Method to Measure Supermassive Black Holes
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists detail the discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes,…
New Study Suggests That Black Holes Are Growing Faster Than Previously Thought
A study from astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology suggests that black holes have been growing much faster than previously thought. Astronomers from Swinburne…
NuSTAR Images of Spiral Galaxy IC 342 & Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is providing scientists with greater sensitivity and imaging capability and giving them new information on a wide array of cosmic…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 1097
This new Hubble image shows the star-forming ring that surrounds spiral galaxy NGC 1097, a galaxy that is located 45 million light-years away from Earth…
Survey Reveals “Ultramassive” Black Holes Weighing 40 billion Times the Mass of the Sun
A new survey of 18 giant black holes shows that the biggest black holes may be even bigger than previously thought, with several weighing between…
Survey of Galaxies Reveals Supermassive Black Holes
Using data from Chandra observations of 62 nearby galaxies and data from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey, scientists have shown that 37 of the…
First Detection of Radio-Emitting Jets from a Stellar-Mass Black Hole Outside Our Galaxy
A newly published study reveals the first detection of radio-emitting jets moving at more than 85 percent the speed of light from a stellar-mass black…
Black Holes Have Properties That Resemble the Dynamics of Solids and Liquids
New research showing that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids may help scientists better understand black holes and…
Hubble and VLA View Elliptical Galaxy Hercules A
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope combine to create this image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A, also known as 3C…
Massive Black Hole is 17 Billion Times Our Sun’s Mass
A massive black hole, measuring 17 billion times our sun’s mass and more than 11 times as wide as Neptune’s orbit around the sun, could…
Scientists Discover the Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any that has been observed to date. Data reveals that a…
Magnetic Field Interacting With Gravity and Spin Shape Black Hole’s Environment
A newly published study describes how astrophysicists used simulations, which follow both the rules of general relativity and the laws of magnetism, to demonstrate that…
The Brightest Flare Ever Observed From Sagittarius A*
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, emits relatively little energy for its size, as much energy as Sol…
Hubble Views Abell 2261, An Elliptical Galaxy With an Unusually Large Core
This new image from Hubble shows Abell 2261, a giant elliptical galaxy located about three billion light-years away that is roughly ten times the diameter…
Astronomers Discover Star Orbiting the Black Hole at Center of the Milky Way
A team of scientists discovered a star called S0-102 that orbits the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in 11.5 years….