A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure. It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies…
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Artist’s impression of two black holes colliding Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav A new study led by postdoctoral researcher Xingjiang Zhu from the ARC Centre of…
Black holes are among the most enigmatic objects in our universe. These mysterious celestial bodies do not emit any light of their own and are…
Hot spots circling around the black hole could produce the quasi-periodic millimeter emission detected with ALMA. Credit: Keio University Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
(Click image for full view.) This illustration depicts a quasar, a type of active galactic nucleus, surrounded by a dusty donut shape (torus) and clumps…
The Russian RATAN-600 telescope helps to understand the origin of cosmic neutrinos. Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian researchers trace high-energy neutrino origins to black…
A composite view of the Abell 2384 system, comprising two galaxy clusters located 1.2 billion light years from Earth. A new study, based on data…
This artist’s impression shows the orbits of the objects in the HR 6819 triple system. This system is made up of an inner binary with…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of…
This image shows two massive black holes in the OJ 287 galaxy. The smaller black hole orbits the larger one, which is also surrounded by…
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveal the eccentricity of binary black holes: the shape of the…
This illustration shows how some of the light coming from a disk around a black hole is bent back onto the disk itself due to…
A physicist has developed a formula for calculating Hawking radiation in the vicinity of an Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet black hole. Credit: RUDN University A RUDN University physicist…
This artist’s concept depicts a cosmic homicide in action. A wayward star is being shredded by the intense gravitational pull of a black hole that…
This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin, rotating disc of…
The image of a black hole has a bright ring of emission surrounding a “shadow” cast by the black hole. This ring is composed of…
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion…
NGC 1589, a spiral galaxy, was once the scene of a violent bout of cosmic hunger pangs. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The subject of this…
This image shows the X-ray outburst from the black hole MAXI J0637-043, detected by the REXIS instrument on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The image was constructed…