There are large black holes at the center of just about every major galaxy, including our own. In 2022, an image was released ...
M87, located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a ...
Using the NASA space telescopes Hubble and Chandra astronomers have discovered a strange black hole that has been knocked on ...
The researchers found that the emitted dark matter would ring space-time like a bell around the black hole. It would not be as strong of a signal as the ones that come from black hole mergers ...
TBIRD, a laser communications system developed by Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data at unprecedented speeds, enabling scientists to capture black holes' elusive photon rings. The Event Horizon ...
Scientists observed M87’s first gamma-ray flare in a decade, revealing insights into its supermassive black hole and ...
But there are key distinctions. "Because Sagittarius A* is a much smaller black hole - it's around a thousand times smaller - its ring structure changes on timescales that are a thousand times ...
Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...
And as it does so, the region of brightness seen in the black hole's encircling ring of gas appears to wobble. "What we see is the flow of matter swirling around and ultimately plunging over the ...
NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope ...
The most detailed map of the universe ever created using gravitational waves could reveal hidden black holes, merging supermassive black holes and even the large-scale structure of the cosmos.