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 ...
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.
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 ...
Astronomers spot a mysterious object colliding with supermassive black hole jet in a distant galaxy
Astronomers discover unique collision between black hole jet and unidentified object in Centaurus A galaxy, shedding new ...
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 ...
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 ...
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“Weird Things” Around Enormous Black Hole Spotted By Hubble
This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In ...
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 ...
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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 ...