Astronomers discover magnetic loops around supermassive black hole
NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...
Jaw-Dropping Image Captures Black Hole Jet Smashing Into Mystery Object
A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...
Webb observes winds driven by black hole jets in more than ten different regions of a nearby galaxy
In a new study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Prof. Dasyra of the National and Kapodistrian ...
Hubble Telescope sees 'weird things' in closest-ever look at a quasar from monster black hole
The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...
6 Supermassive Black Hole images captured by NASA
A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it nothing ...
What Is a Black Hole? Astronomy's Most Mysterious Object, Explained
To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...
Powerful Magnetic Fields Spin Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole
Recent findings by the EHT collaboration reveal strong, organized magnetic fields around Sagittarius A*, suggesting common ...
Astronomers wonder if galaxies are falling into this giant black hole
How supermassive black holes form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of ...
NASA Captures Black Hole Jet Blasting a Mysterious Object
One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery. It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central ...
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How big can 'ultramassive' black holes get? Scientists may have the answer
Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes exceed ...
Binary Black Holes Can Tell Us A Lot About The Universe. But First, We Have To Find Them
Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from their vicinity. Binary black ...
Hubble Captures Monster Black Hole That May Be Gobbling Galaxies
The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.