Astronomers Watch as a Black Hole Feeds on a Low-Mass Object
Using ESA’s Integral space observatory, astronomers discovered and watched a black hole in galaxy NGC 4845 feed on a low-mass object that strayed too close….
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Black Hole and Red Dwarf Orbit Each Other Once Every 2.4 Hours
Using data from ground observations and space telescopes, researchers have identified a red dwarf and black hole that orbit each other once every 2.4 hours,…
New Insights Into the Life and Death of Black Holes
A newly published study from scientists at the University of York dismisses the so-called firewall paradox and reveals new insights into the life and death…
Black Hole Collision May Have Triggered Starforming and Accretion-Powered Activity
In a soon-to-be-published paper, researchers at Vanderbilt University suggest that several million years ago the Milky Way was teaming with starforming and accretion-powered activity that…
The Mysterious Structure of a Black Hole Edge
In a newly published study, researchers report a black hole with a mass greater than three times that of the Sun in a 2.8-hour period…
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…
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…