Schematic representation of a quasar. The hot accretion disk in the center surrounds the black hole, which is invisible here. A dense distribution of gas…
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This animation shows an artist’s rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite. Credit: Wolfgang…
Artist’s impression of a neutron star and black hole about to merge. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne The largest catalog of gravitational wave events ever assembled…
RBS 797 is a galaxy cluster located about 3.9 billion light years from Earth. Four enormous cavities, or bubbles, have been found at the center…
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light-years away. At its heart lies a black hole with a mass of 55 million…
An artist’s impression of the mysterious burst AT2018cow. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “The Cow,” may…
These annotated images, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) between March and July 2021, show stars orbiting very close…
Artist’s impression of CygnusX-1. Credit: Mark Myers, OzGrav-Swinburne University The first evidence of the existence of black holes was found in the 1960s, when strong…
This is a composite view of X-rays, molecular gas, and warm ionized gas near the galactic center. The orange-colored features are of glowing hydrogen gas.…
Illustration of simulated Webb images of quasar and galaxy surrounding quasar. Researchers will take images of each target with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), like the…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
An artist’s impression of a close pair of black holes. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large TelescopeThe Very Large Telescope array (VLT) is a…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Watch…
This artist’s concept shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas. Embedded in this disk are two smaller black holes that may…
Black hole artist’s impression. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) Our telescopes have never detected a black holeA black hole is a place in space where the…
New theory ‘detects’ light in the darkness of a vacuum. Black holes are regions of space-time with huge amounts of gravity. Scientists originally thought that…
Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, “like Pac Man,” in a discovery documenting the collision of the two most…
Two black holes merge to become one. Credit: NASA Key points: An international team of scientists, including Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence…
An artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that is spewing out jets (shown in orange) as well as…
This artist’s impression shows a compact black hole 11 times as massive as the Sun and the five-solar-mass star orbiting it. The two objects are…