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.…
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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…
Artist’s impression of the web of the supermassive black hole. With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying…
Insight-HXMT discovers QPO generated in the closest jet to the black hole. Credit: IHEP Insight-HXMT, China’s first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency…
Snapshots of the M87* black hole appearance, obtained through imaging / geometric modeling, and the EHT array of telescopes in 2009-2017. The diameter of all…
Artist’s impression of binary black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) The most massive black…
A lopsided merger of two black holes may have unusual origins, based on a reanalysis of LIGO data. Credit: MIT News Researchers suggest a novel…
A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist’s concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling onto it. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The process occurs…
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only…
Numerical simulation of two black holes that inspiral and merge, emitting gravitational waves. The black holes have large and nearly equal masses, with one only…
Artist’s illustration of the structures seen in the observations. Credit: NAOJ Radio astronomers have detected jets of hot gas blasted out by a black hole…
Computer simulation of the disruption of a star by a black hole shows the formation of an eccentric accretion disk of stellar material spiraling into…
Artistic impression of the constant emission of winds produced during the eruption of a black hole in an X-ray binary. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM…
The center of quasar 3C279 emits flickering gamma radiation, which is characteristic of the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection. Credit: Amit Shukla / Indian Institute of…
The microquasar SS 433 (background) sways with a period of 162 days. The inconspicuous gas cloud Fermi J1913+0515 (foreground), about 100 light years away, pulsates…
A new study reveals what happens when a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy cluster stops being active. By combining data from…
Scientists from the University of Valencia detect rapid changes in a black hole that may help understand the origin of gamma-ray bursts. A team from…
The two illustrations on this page show a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas, before (above) and after (below) the disk is partially…