A dusty red object at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy called G2 is a pair of binary stars that merged together, according to a team of researchers led...
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...
A group of astronomers headed by Prof Clive Tadhunter from the the University of Sheffield has discovered that the central supermassive black hole of the...
A team of scientists led by Dr Roger Deane from the University of Cape Town in South Africa has discovered a system of three supermassive black holes –...
Astronomers have detected a clumpy gas stream flowing quickly outward and blocking 90 percent of the X-rays emitted by the supermassive black hole at the...
Astronomers from the United States and China have discovered a hypervelocity star (HVS) that is the closest bright HVS and one of the three most massive...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Nelson Caldwell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered a globular star cluster thrown out...
The more massive the bulge of a galaxy, the redder the galaxy, says a team of astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
A team of astrophysicists led by Dr Rubens Reis from the University of Michigan has directly measured the spin of a supermassive black hole in a quasar...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Alex Markowitz from the University of California, San Diego and the Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg, Germany, has discovered...
Scientists led by Lauren Palladino and Dr Kelly Holley-Bockelmann from Vanderbilt University have identified a new class of hypervelocity stars (HVSs)...
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in the Atacama Desert, Chile, have observed jets from giant black holes in the nearby...
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,...
An international team of astronomers has used observations of the newly discovered pulsar PSR J1745-2900 to measure the magnetic field emanating from a...
A new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, reported in a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (full paper in...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has made detailed observations of a hot gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy.
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