Black Hole

ISS crew members Andrew Morgan after landing in Kazakhstan. Reuters Moscow: A US-Russian space crew landed safely on Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan, greeted with extra precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Following a stint on the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan and Russian Oleg…

Star orbiting in a rosette shape around a black hole. Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have observed a star tracing a rosette shape in its orbit around a supermassive black hole for the first time, an effect that provides further proof of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. The international team…

The Very Large Telescope watched a star for 27 years, measuring its movements around Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way ESO/L. Calçada The mammoth black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (or, in short, Sgr A*), is orbited by a veritable buffet of…

eso2006 — Science Release 16 April 2020 Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Its orbit is shaped…

A star that is pirouetting around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, our galaxy, has validated a key part of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The star, called S2, is like “a precision probe of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole,"…

By Leah Crane Artist’s impression of the odd orbit of the star S2Credit: ESO/L. CalçadaThe movement of a star close to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole has proved Albert Einstein right about gravity once again. After 27 years of observation, we have finally nailed down the orbit of this star,…

Media Advisory 20-002 April 8, 2020 Media are invited to join an April 10 Zoom media briefing with Sheperd S. Doeleman, founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and astrophysicist Michael Johnson to discuss the one-year anniversary of EHT releasing its revolutionary image of a black hole. Doeleman and…

Image copyright Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration Image caption The right-hand image was captured with a less powerful telescope. It shows the jet streaming away to the lower-right. In the new EHT image on the left, scientists can now see detail where the jet connects to the accretion disc. The supermassive…

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…

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…