Composite image showing how the M87 system looked, across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, during the Event Horizon Telescope’s April 2017 campaign to take the iconic…
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In this artist’s conception of the polarized view of the black hole in M87, lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the…
What is the origin of black holes and how is that question connected with another mystery, the nature of dark matter? Dark matter comprises the…
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in…
Turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman A new theoretical study has proposed a novel mechanism…
A person falling into a black hole and being stretched while approaching the black hole’s horizon. Credit: Leo Rodriguez and Shanshan Rodriguez, CC BY-ND To…
Artist’s impression of a disc of material circling a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black…
Color map of the curvature on the large black hole horizon generated by the near merging small black hole. Credit: Nicole Rosato Rochester Institute of…
Artist’s conception of a rotating black hole accreting matter via an accretion disk and emitting a jet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Black holes are considered amongst the…
It was previously thought that collisions between galaxies would necessarily add to the activity of the massive black holes at their centers. However, researchers have…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. The merger of two black holes in a binary system emits energy that…
An artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 showing the supermassive black hole and the extremely high velocity wind. The quasar, seen just 670 million years after…
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:…
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…