Black Hole

A century ago, Albert Einstein became famous. Sure, he was already well-known among physicists. But the world at large learned his name only after November 1919, when news broke that his theory of gravity had been confirmed—to the dismay of many fans of Isaa…

The G objects orbit Sgr A* in skewed ellipses, large and small, just as the visible stars do, which supports the notion that the same objects ultimately make up both groups. Rough estimates of population size and age also match the merger idea, but the theory…

Astronomers from the UCLA Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of objects that are orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. That black hole is called Sagittarius A, and the team says that the bizarre objects look like gas and behave like stars.…

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Home News Science & Astronomy An artist's depiction of a dwarf galaxy with a massive black hole highlighted. (Image: © Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers have detected several supermassive black holes wandering through their dwarf host galaxies, providing new clues about how similar black holes evolved in the early universe. Using the…

A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his third day on the job.Wolf Cukier, then a junior in high school, was interning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland when he made the discovery.The planet, since named TOI 1338 b, is the first circumbinary planet to…

Astronomers from UCLA's Galactic Center Orbits Initiative have discovered a new class of bizarre objects at the center of our galaxy, not far from the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. They published their research today in the journal Nature. "…

This week, observations of objects orbiting a black hole, and rethinking how we measure screen-time. In this episode: 00:45 Observing the centre of the galaxy Researchers have uncovered a population of dust-enshrouded objects orbiting the supermassive blac…

This week, observations of objects orbiting a black hole, and rethinking how we measure screen-time. In this episode: 00:45 Observing the centre of the galaxy Researchers have uncovered a population of dust-enshrouded objects orbiting the supermassive blac…

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