This collision left a V-shaped imprint in the X-rays observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. But what does this really mean? At the heart of Centaurus A, a supermassive black hole ejects a ...
This simulation shows two black holes colliding near the speed of light, revealing the mysterious physics of what one astrophysicist calls “one of the most violent events you can imagine in the ...
This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be evidence of a galactic collision in NGC 5084’s recent past. Sometimes being ...
This would provide plenty of cosmic gas on which a black hole could feast. "There's a stream of stars and gas connecting these two galaxies. That collision led gas to stream towards the ...
An artist's concept of the supermassive black hole's mid-infrared flare. Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the ...
For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...
Astronomers have found evidence suggesting that supermassive black holes have played a pivotal role in shaping cosmic evolution since the universe's infancy. Astronomers have estimated one black ...