Mysterious Object Is Being Dragged Into the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
UCLA astronomers think the object, X7, might be debris cloud from a stellar collision. An object near the supermassive black hole at the center of…
UCLA astronomers think the object, X7, might be debris cloud from a stellar collision. An object near the supermassive black hole at the center of…
New Discovery Sheds Light on Very Early Supermassive Black Holes Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly…
The exciting finding promises numerous similar discoveries. Using data from ESA’s Gaia astrometry mission, astronomers have identified the closest known black hole, less than 1600…
Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa has uncovered the…
A study conducted by the University of Southampton has uncovered the process by which supermassive black holes (SMBHs) consume gas clouds that reach them by…
Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, which the researchers have dubbed Gaia BH1. The dormant…
Researchers say that current measurements of black holes are insufficient to determine the formation process of these invisible giants in the universe. The way a…
While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s…
Scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know….
Since 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has detected about 85 pairs of black holes crashing into each other. We now know that Einstein was right: gravitational…
Astronomers at the Swinburne University of Technology have played an important role in the discovery of a rare luminous jet of matter traveling close to…
A Deep Gravitational Sinkhole Swallows Unlucky Bypassing Star Black holes have such a voracious gravitational pull that they even swallow light. This makes them hungry…
New observations and analysis reveal two Goliath black holes just 750 light-years apart and closing, as they circle each other in the aftermath of a…
Last year, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) was alerted after an unusual source of visible light had been detected by a…
According to recent research from the University of Bath in the UK, newborn supramassive stars, rather than black holes, may be the cause of gamma-ray…
Zwicky Transient Facility Makes First Discovery of a Rare Cosmic “Lunch” Astronomers caught a black hole chomping on a nearby star and releasing jets in…
Researchers’ recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately…
NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Destroying a Star Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand…