The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration. Credit: Space.com | ...
Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...
Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...
The enigmatic and awe-inspiring nature of black holes continues to captivate astronomers worldwide, and the supermassive ...
HE0435-1223, a lensed quasar, is surrounded by four images created by a foreground galaxy, making it one of the five best lensed quasars discovered. Hubble's image of NGC 5793, a spiral galaxy 150 ...
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end Shi En Kim The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster ...
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy’s 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Alec ...
But the newfound duo, dubbed D9, suggests that some stellar pairs can, in fact, hang on near a black hole, if only for a short while. Astronomers estimate the stars are about 2.7 million years old ...
Hernández-García furthered noted, "Finding binary supermassive black holes is a challenging task, but from the theoretical point of view it is expected to be present in many galaxy centres.
Some of our galaxy's largest and brightest stars are found in this star-forming region. The elaborate designs and brilliant colors are evidence of the creative process's strength. The Black Hole in ...
There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of international ...