The doughnut-shaped ring surrounding many supermassive black holes tells researchers about how fast the space object is feeding and can change how the black hole…
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Using the Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to our own. A stellar-mass…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study,…
In this illustration, stars are seen to be in close orbit around the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of the Milky Way,…
Simulation of glowing gas around a black hole’ Credit: Chris White, Princeton University Looks can be deceiving. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady,…
This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant…
An artist’s impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerated masses…
Artist’s illustration of a black hole. Gravitational microlensing turns up black holeA black hole is a place in space where the pull of gravity is…
An accreting SMBH in a fairly local galaxy with very large and extended radio jets. Credit: R. Timmerman; LOFAR & Hubble Space Telescope A deeper…
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The Webb Space Telescope team continues to work on commissioning the science…
This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy 1ES 1927+654 before its recent…
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. Credit: Original image by…
At the heart of most, if not all, giant galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. As matter rotates around and falls into the black hole,…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon…
This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the latest image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive black hole at…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: EHT Collaboration Team reveals…
Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESOCreated in 1962, the European Southern Observatory (ESO), is a 16-nation…
Meet Sagittarius A* – Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct visual evidence of…
An artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Credit: Image courtesy of ESA/AOES Medialab Today (May 12, 2022) at…
In this simulation of a supermassive black hole merger, the blue-shifted black hole closest to the viewer amplifies the red-shifted black hole in the back…