Searching for Signs of Binary Black Holes One type of indirect method involves searching for periodic signals from the centers of active galaxies. These are galaxies that emit significantly more ...
Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before ...
So, astronomers have to use clever indirect methods to figure out whether a galaxy has a binary supermassive black hole in its center. One type of indirect method involves searching for periodic ...
So, astronomers have to use clever indirect methods to figure out whether a galaxy has a binary supermassive black hole in its center. One type of indirect method involves searching for periodic ...
Galaxy M87’s core is home to the supermassive black hole seen with the Event Horizon Telescope. The short linear structure close to the center is a black hole jet. (Credit: NASA) When the Event ...
While black holes are perplexing at any size, some of the most mysterious are hypothetical primordial black holes, those that sprung into existence in the first second after the Big Bang and some ...
What happens when a gargantuan cloud of gas swallows a pair of monster black holes with their own appetites ... But in cases of random AGN flares known as quasi-periodic eruptions or QPEs ...