Black Hole

A rare and bizarre cosmic event involving three massive black holes has led to the discovery of an unprecedented phenomenon: a supermassive black hole moving at incredible speeds, leaving a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars in its wake. Captured accidentally by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this extraordinary contrail of star…

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Artist’s Impression of the “Tadpole” Molecular Cloud and the black hole at the gravitational center of its orbit. Credit: Keio University Researchers discovered an unusual gas cloud called the “Tadpole” potentially orbiting a massive black hole 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, and plan to use ALMA to search…

This artist's impression shows a closely bound duo of energetic quasars — the hallmark of a pair of merging galaxies — seen when the universe was only three billion years old. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani, J. da Silva)Astronomers have spotted two quasars lighting up the mutual heart of…

This artist’s concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. The gravitational tug-of-war between the two galaxies ignites a firestorm of star birth. Quasars are brilliant beacons of intense light from the centers of distant…

After numerous delays to an initial proposed launch date of December 2021 due to real-world events that Nintendo evidently felt made launching a light-hearted warfare game problematic, Wayforward's Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is finally almost here. Featuring the classic Game Boy Advance campaigns from both Advance Wars and Advance…

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Astronomers have discovered two new black holes that are the closest ones to Earth known, and also represent something that astronomers have never seen before.  The black holes, designated Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2, were discovered in data collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft.  Gaia BH1 is…

Gaia BH2, one of the closest black holes to Earth ever detected, sits 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Here, the galaxy Centaurus A shines brightly. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO; optical: Rolf Olsen; infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/Univ.Hertfordshire/M.Hardcastle) Two recently discovered black holes are remarkably close to Earth — and they…