Artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide. Credit: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) Over the past five…
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Artist’s impression of a blazar. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab An international team of astronomers has identified the farthest example of a rare class of…
Still from an animation of the inspiral of a binary black hole with a 128:1 mass ratio showing the beginning of the final burst of…
This image is part of a simulation showing the orbits of stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky…
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.…
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…