Black Hole

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered structures around a black hole that were thought to be impossible. A small, "malnourished" black hole was found to have a flat disk of material circling it a feature thought unique to supermassive b…

Slowly drawing closer together in a death spiral, the supermassive pair will start sending gravitational waves that will rip through space-time. The mass of each black hole is stated to be over 800 million times that of our sun. Even before the destined coll…

Even light cannot escape the grasp of a black hole. Have you ever wondered how a black hole in space actually looks like? Now you wont have to rely on the imagination of an artist. Though it was once near impossible to capture an image of spinning black holes…

The Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated by NASA and the ESA, is fantastic for spotting objects residing in the distant reaches of space. Black holes, which are impossible to actually see, give their position away thanks to the galaxies that often surrou…

Astronomers using the NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a mysterious disk of thin material surrounding a supermassive black hole. The strange disk was observed in the center of NGC 3147, a spiral galaxy that’s located 130 m…

Hubble spies something mysterious around a supermassive black hole

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material encircling a supermassive black hole at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away. The presence of the black hole disc…

As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130…

There’s really nothing in the universe that can compare to the awesome power of a supermassive black hole. Well, almost nothing. In a new paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers describe the discovery of not one, but two supermassive black h…

When astronauts set foot on the Moon 50 years ago, it was a technological triumph that sparked curiosity across the globe. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins inspired us to learn more about space and life here on Earth. A similar spirit of curios…