This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...
Space, with its vast, mysterious, and often terrifying nature, has long captivated humanity’s imagination. As we continue to ...
What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...
In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It is about 4 million times the mass of the Sun.
The galaxy Centaurus A, which has a supermassive black hole at its core. Image: X-ray (Chandra): NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al; X-ray (IXPE): NASA/MSFC; Optical: ESO; Image Processing ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed striking details. Astronomers studied the active black hole powering the quasar 3C 273. Quasars are luminous galactic centres fuelled by black holes.
NASA's Hubble Space ... A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...
The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...
And now a study suggests that black holes might be even stranger than we thought. NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory ... Using the deepest X-ray images ever taken of the galaxy, the researchers ...
Astronomers have used ... The images suggested galactic collisions and mergers between quasars and companion galaxies, where debris cascades down onto supermassive black holes.
but the sideways secret of its central black hole lay hidden in old data archives. The discovery was made possible by new image analysis techniques developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...
M87's Black Hole: The black hole in the M87 galaxy is about 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun. In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...