Black Hole

A star’s tattered remains (orange and yellow disk) are consumed by a mysterious object called an intermediate-mass black hole in this artist’s impression. Credit: NASA/ESA/D.Player, STScI Astronomy and astrophysics 07 April 2020 The discovery could help to unravel the evolution of the Universe’s most extreme environments. Astronomers say they have…

Whilst astronomers are fairly certain that supermassive black holes, billions of times more massive than our  Sun, dwell at the center of almost every galaxy in the Universe, they are still unsure how these cosmic monsters reach such tremendous sizes. The problem seems to be one of time, the Universe…

Scientists have detected supermassive black holes that are millions or billions as massive as the Sun, as well as black holes that are only five to 30 times as massive as the Sun. But there’s another class of object that has proved trickier to spot—intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), which have…

Image copyright ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Image caption Artwork: The presumed black hole revealed itself by tearing apart a star that ventured too close A team of astronomers has found what it says is the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.They say the presumed "intermediate-mass" black hole…

Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. Weighing in at about 50,000 times the mass of our Sun, the black…

Astronomers peered across 11 billion light years and used another galaxy as a telescope to observe energetic jets fueled by a supermassive black hole in the early universe. The effort has produced the first high-resolution images of disrupted galactic gas clouds at such an extreme distance from Earth, according to…

Astronomers peered across 11 billion light years and used another galaxy as a telescope to observe energetic jets fueled by a supermassive black hole in the early universe. The effort has produced the first high-resolution images of disrupted galactic gas clouds at such an extreme distance from Earth, according to…

Home News Science & Astronomy This image from a computer simulation shows matter ejecting from the heart of a supernova. (Image: © RIKEN Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory) In 1987, astronomers observed an incredible star explosion in a galaxy not too far away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Now, researchers suggest…

The first-ever image of a black hole | Commons Text Size: New method predicts intricate internal structure Scientists at Harvard University have found a way to produce much sharper images of black hole as compared to the blurry ones we’ve seen so far. Last year, the international coalition of scientists,…

Since the 1950s, astronomers have known of galaxies that have particularly bright centers – aka. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) or quasars. This luminosity is the result of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers consuming matter and releasing electromagnetic energy. Further studies revealed that there are some quasars that appear…