Tag Archive for Supermassive black hole

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. New...

An international team of astronomers using data from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array and ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellites has been able...

Australian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes grow – and it’s not what was expected. Researchers have believed that...

According to a team of astronomers led by Dr Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo of Stanford University, so-called ‘ultramassive black holes’ may be more abundant...

A team of astronomers, led by Dr Mischa Schirmer of the Gemini Observatory, using observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the Gemini South...

An international team of scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole about 12.4...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a black hole that could shake the foundations of current models of galaxy evolution. This Hubble image...

An international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has found a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five...

Astronomers using the Low-Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy (LOFAR) have captured a stunning image of a bubble of particles surrounding a supermassive...

By combining observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and radio data from...

A multinational team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured...

Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘I, have photographed the...

Cambridge researchers have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. Infrared color image...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy in only 11.5 years –...

Astronomers using the newly upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, USA, have discovered two black holes inside an ancient...

An international team of astrophysicists has the first time measured the black hole’s ‘point of no return’ – the closest distance that...

New observations from the Herschel Space Observatory have revealed that prodigious star formation in galaxies of the early Universe were often accompanied...

A research led by Dr Ruth Murray-Clay of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets can form in the center of our galaxy. Artist’s...

Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have discovered millions of supermassive black hole candidates across the Universe and...