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

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

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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." ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We succeeded in obtaining high-resolution maps of the recombination lines of ... more massive the black hole, the faster the object makes matter spiral beyond its event horizon, reaching speeds ...

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 ...