Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...
First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...
Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...
A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn't ever expect to see happen in real ...
A large international team of scientists observed a rare event in real time: a dramatic increase in radio emission and the ...