The first image taken of the compact object at the heart of M87. Researchers consider this to be a supermassive black hole, but a new…
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With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall…
Chandra has detected X-rays from the dwarf galaxy Mrk 462, which reveals the presence of a growing supermassive black hole. This black hole contains about…
Artist’s concept illustration of a supermassive black hole emitting an x-ray jet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés,…
Chandra has detected X-rays from the dwarf galaxy Mrk 462, which reveals the presence of a growing supermassive black hole. This black hole contains about…
Schematic representation of a quasar. The hot accretion disk in the center surrounds the black hole, which is invisible here. A dense distribution of gas…
This animation shows an artist’s rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite. Credit: Wolfgang…
Artist’s impression of a neutron star and black hole about to merge. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne The largest catalog of gravitational wave events ever assembled…
RBS 797 is a galaxy cluster located about 3.9 billion light years from Earth. Four enormous cavities, or bubbles, have been found at the center…
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light-years away. At its heart lies a black hole with a mass of 55 million…
An artist’s impression of the mysterious burst AT2018cow. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “The Cow,” may…
These annotated images, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) between March and July 2021, show stars orbiting very close…
Artist’s impression of CygnusX-1. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University The first evidence of the existence of black holes was found in the 1960s, when strong…
This is a composite view of X-rays, molecular gas, and warm ionized gas near the galactic center. The orange-colored features are of glowing hydrogen gas.…
Illustration of simulated Webb images of quasar and galaxy surrounding quasar. Researchers will take images of each target with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), like the…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
An artist’s impression of a close pair of black holes. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large TelescopeThe Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Watch…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may…
Black hole artist’s impression. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) Our telescopes have never detected a black holeA black hole is a place in space where the…