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A team of astronomers in the UK has made a massive discovery, using gravitational lensing to locate one of the biggest black holes to date.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Supermassive black hole, Astronomy, Space exploration, Durham Unive… Continue reading Ultramassive black hole found, 33 billion times the mass of the Sun
Astronomers have been tracking a mysterious object near the center of the galaxy for decades, and now a new study has shed light on its identity – and its eventual fate in the coming years, when it will likely be slurped up by the supermassive black ho… Continue reading 20-year study watches strange, doomed object at the center of the galaxy
A groundbreaking new study could finally provide an answer to one of the most perplexing astrophysics mysteries – without needing to add anything new to our current models. Physicists suggest that black holes could contain a strange form of energy that… Continue reading Startling new evidence suggests black holes drive expansion of universe
Astronomers have spotted an incredibly bright flash of light beaming halfway across the universe. The strange light was estimated to throw off more light than one quadrillion Suns, and in an ironic twist came from one of the darkest objects possible.Co… Continue reading Flash of light as bright as a quadrillion Suns dazzles astronomers
Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration have today revealed the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, produced using a network of radio telescopes around the world.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading EHT scientists reveal first image of black hole at the center of our galaxy
Contrary to their name, black holes are known to fire off flares from time to time, but exactly how this happens is shrouded in mystery. High-resolution simulations have now revealed how twisting magnetic fields can throw off huge amounts of energy.Con… Continue reading Simulation reveals origin of strange flares from supermassive black holes
Contrary to their name, black holes are known to fire off flares from time to time, but exactly how this happens is shrouded in mystery. High-resolution simulations have now revealed how twisting magnetic fields can throw off huge amounts of energy.Con… Continue reading Simulation reveals origin of strange flares from supermassive black holes
Astronomers have discovered the closest pair of supermassive black holes yet known – and that record has two meanings. Not only are they the closest pair to Earth, but they’re the closest to each other as well, barreling towards each other for an event… Continue reading Closest pair of supermassive black holes headed for monster merger
Black holes are notoriously dark objects, but now Stanford astronomers have spotted some strange light coming from behind one. The X-ray echoes seem to be the result of the intense gravity of the object warping space and bending the light back around i… Continue reading X-ray echoes detected from behind a black hole for first time
Astronomers have taken a close-up image of a radio jet emitted by a supermassive black hole for the first time. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has zoomed in on this jet with 16 times the resolution and at 10 times higher frequencies than previous ob… Continue reading Event Horizon Telescope snaps close-up of supermassive black hole jets