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…
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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…
The dynamic behaviour of a black hole corona (artist’s impression). Credit: ESA Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and…
This extremely powerful eruption occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is located about 390 million light-years from Earth. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures…
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high…
Artist’s conception of a dwarf galaxy, its shape distorted, most likely by a past interaction with another galaxy, and a massive black hole in its…
A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable…
When David Poses As Goliath Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black…
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Here are five things to know! [embedded content] A black hole is a…
This artist’s impression depicts the black hole at the heart of the enormous elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87). This black hole was chosen as the…
This illustration depicts a gas halo surrounding a quasar in the early Universe. The quasar, in orange, has two powerful jets and a supermassive black…
Artist’s conception of two black holes entwined in a gravitational tango. Credit: NASA Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests…
[embedded content] What happens when a black hole has a star for dinner? In this new video, Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory…
This image contains a black hole that is triggering star formation across the longest distance ever seen. As hot gas swirls around the black hole,…
Accretion of gas onto a stellar black hole from its blue companion star, through a truncated accretion disk (Artist impression). Credit: YU Jingchuan, Beijing Planetarium,…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Schellenberger et al.; Optical:SDSS Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at…
An artist’s impression of the Milky Way’s big black hole flinging the star from the galaxy’s center. Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) An international…