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…

In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released stunning images of the supermassive black hole in Messier 87, a giant elliptical galaxy located some 53 million light-years from us in the constellation Virgo. Now, a team of researchers has published new calculations that predict that embedded within an…

Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image of a black hole. Today, a team of researchers have published new calculations that predict a striking and intricate substructure within black hole images from extreme gravitational light bending. "The image of a black…

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Back In TimeScientists have discovered what seems to be the oldest supermassive black hole yet.The black hole, dubbed PSO J0309+27, likely formed just 900 million years after the Big Bang, Live Science reports. Sounds like a long time ago, but cosmically speaking, that’s nothing (at least compared to the age…