A team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the 6.5-m Clay Telescope in Chile has found the smallest supermassive black hole ever...
Neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, says a group of scientists from...
A multinational team of astronomers has spotted an oversized black hole in the center of a typical star-forming galaxy, called CID-947.
This illustration...
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescope have discovered a bright X-ray light echo in the form of...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, a network of several dozen radio dishes located in the high-elevation desert...
A group of astronomers led by Tingting Liu of the University of Maryland has discovered a pulsing light signal that hints at a close pair of supermassive...
Some scientists have argued for decades that black holes are the ultimate vaults, entities that suck in information and then evaporate without leaving...
A group of astronomers from the United States, China, Chile, and Australia, has discovered the brightest quasar in the early Universe, powered by the most...
In a new paper published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, the team responsible for the visual effects at the center of Christopher Nolan’s...
A multinational group of astronomers led by Dr Anil Seth of the University of Utah has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of an ultra-compact...
Astronomers led by Dr Dheeraj Pasham at the University of Maryland have determined the mass of a black hole known as M82 X-1, which is located in the nearby...
Astronomers have discovered a new black hole in the nearby galaxy Messier 83, also known as M83, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy or NGC 5236.
Nearby spiral...
An international team of researchers using ESA’s XMM-Newton Space Telescope has found the first evidence of heavy atoms in jets emitted by a stellar-mass...
An international team of scientists led by Dr Patrick Hall of York University in Toronto has discovered a new type of quasars.
This is an artist’s impression...
A team of researchers reported the first-ever discovery of a black hole in a globular star cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This Chandra X-ray image of...
Astronomers led by Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn from the University of Sydney have found evidence that the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy,...
For the first time ever, a multinational team of astronomers from France, the UK, the United States, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Australia, has...
