Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

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Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

Astronomers studying elusive supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies ... of Technology in Sweden are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-sized array of eight ...

Any object that falls past a black hole's point-of-no-return, called the event horizon, isn't coming back. That includes light. "This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole." ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually increasing in frequency that seem to be coming from a white dwarf - a ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging ... Event Horizon Telescope ...

This year, using the Event Horizon Telescope, which in 2022 captured the first image of our galaxy's black hole, scientists found the answer: Sagittarius A* was likely born from a gigantic ...

such as the next generation Very Large Array in New Mexico or the next generation Event Horizon Telescope, an expanded version of EHT that astronomers hope will capture not just images but also videos ...