An international team of astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar in the Universe, fully formed around 670 million years after the Big Bang. Credit:…
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Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers are searching for signs of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the heart of nearby active galaxy IC 5063 reveals a mixture of bright rays and dark shadows coming from…
Baby universes branching off of our universe shortly after the Big Bang appear to us as black holes. Credit: Kavli IPMU The Kavli Institute for…
In this artist’s rendering courtesy of NASA, the remnants of a star torn apart by a black hole form a disk around the black hole’s…
The massive O4.5 V + O5.5 V binary VFTS 352 in the Tarantula Nebula (location indicated by the red cross) is one of the shortest-period…
Illustration of the galaxy called CQ4479. The extremely active black hole at the galaxy’s center is consuming material so fast that the material is glowing…
Illustration of a young radio jet launching from a supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF U.S. Naval…
Position and velocity map of the Milky Way Galaxy. Arrows show position and velocity data for the 224 objects used to model the Milky Way…
Artistic representation: In a merger of neutron stars extreme temperatures and densities occur. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. A new study lead by GSI…
This illustration generated by a computer model shows multiple black holes found within the heart of a dense globular star cluster. Credit: Aaron M. Geller,…
An artist’s impression of a black hole. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that…
Artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) Over the past five…
Artist’s impression of a blazar. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab An international team of astronomers has identified the farthest example of a rare class of…
Still from an animation of the inspiral of a binary black hole with a 128:1 mass ratio showing the beginning of the final burst of…
This image is part of a simulation showing the orbits of stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky…
This wide-field view of the center of our Milky Way galaxy shows, in visible light, the vast array of stars contained within this small space.…
Andrea Ghez. Credit: Christopher Dibble/UCLA Andrea Ghez (Caltech MS ’89, PhD ’92), the Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Professor of Astrophysics at UCLA,…
Artist’s impression of black hole jets. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others…
Black hole accretion disk and torus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Matter swirling around supermassive black holes creates bursts of light that “echo” in nearby dust clouds. These…