“These new observations provide crucial information in understanding how black holes grow.” An illustration of the central active region of a galaxy powered by a feeding supermassive black hole. (Image credit: JAXA) Less than a year after Japan’s X-Ray Imaging and
The pit crater possibly opens into a larger cave that could provide a sheltered environment for both astronauts and hypothetical Martian life. The alluring pit crater on Arsia Mons, imaged by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) instrument on
Black hole singularities defy the laws of physics. New research presents a bold solution to this puzzle: Black holes may actually be a theoretical type of star called a ‘gravastar,’ filled with universe-expanding dark energy. Black holes are bizarre cosmic
The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way The heart of the Milky Way as seen by the Subaru Telescope showing the
Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, has been found to be spinning — and dragging space-time along with it. CNN — The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly
The historic ‘donut’ black hole M87* is, in fact, spinning. The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration, captured this image of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy
The ultramassive black hole in the galaxy cluster Abell 1201 packs a mass of 30 billion suns. Astronomers discovered the largest black hole ever seen thanks to its ability to bend light. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org),
An artist’s depiction of a supermassive black hole blasting out a jet of “leftovers” as it devours a star. (Image credit: Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of Technology) Astronomers have made
The black hole is located in a dwarf galaxy a million light-years away and ripped apart an unlucky star in a brutal tidal disruption event. rtwork depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close
Gaia BH1 is just 1,560 light-years from our planet. Artist’s illustration of Gaia BH1, a black hole in a binary system that lies just 1,560 light-years from Earth. The system also harbors a sun-like companion star. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J.