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 ...

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 ...

Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else ...

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 ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the ... data from Chandra thanks to a new image analysis they developed.

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 ...

The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...

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 ...

The full Chandra image, with C4 circled in yellow. (NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al.) It also has a very active supermassive black hole and is bursting with star formation, one of the closest ...