Surprising Link Found Between Dark Matter and Black Holes
Dark matter and black holes are some of the most mysterious things in the Universe, so a connection between the ...
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Mysterious object at the heart of Milky Way might be a Merged Star
A mysterious cosmic object thought to be an immense cloud of gas and dust left scientists scratching their heads after ...
When Galaxies Collide: Triple Black Hole System Discovered
Image Credits:NASA/CXC/UCLA/Z.LI AND NRAO/VLA Two decades ago, astronomers started to find evidence that almost all galaxies ...
Scientists find double supermassive black hole
Astronomers have for the first time discovered a pair of supermassive black holes that orbit each other in an ordinary ...
Distant Black Hole Spins at Half the Speed of Light
Credits: X-RAY: NASA/CXC/UNIV OF MICHIGAN/R.C.REIS ET AL; OPTICAL: NASA/STSCI About half of the Universe's lifetime ago, ...
How to reseach black holes from the comfort of your couch
I think many of us wanted, at some point in our lives, to become astronauts. Unfortunately, not so many of ...
Two black holes form from a single collapsing star
Black holes, the most massive objects in the Universe that we know of, which exert a gravitational force so big ...
Why our galaxy’s black hole has a small appetite
As we know by now, most galaxies, including our own, have a supermassive black hole at their center. However, the ...
Why there’s supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
At the heart of virtually every large galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole with a mass ...
Obese black holes outshone stars in earliest galaxies
Early galaxies were very different from those we see today - it was overgrown black holes, and not stars ...
Science ABC – galactic edition: Seyfert galaxies
This is the first post in a series about types of galaxies; today, we'll be finding out more about Seyfert ...
Black-hole wakes up from slumber and feasts on super-Jupiter planet
Artist illustration of the supermassive black hole consuming on a substellar object. (C) ESA In an ...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for first time – nears the speed of light
Artist's impression of a spinning supermassive black hole with a surrounding accretion disk and relativistic jets. ...
Black hole at the center of our galaxy bursts out
As far as black holes go, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is ...
Astronomers capture light from first stars using bright galaxies
I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is ...
Mini-supermassive black hole discovered by astronomers
Though this might sound like an oxymoron, this is possible the best term to describe one of the most interesting ...
European Observatory (ESO) assembles 9 gigapixel image with 84 million stars
The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at ...
Astronomers measure black hole’s radius of no return
At the center of most galaxies lie black holes, some of which are classed as supermassive black holes. These cosmic ...
The death cry of a star being destroyed by a black hole
Stars suffer, too, you know. Astronomers have recently discovered a distinctive X-ray signal coming from a star on the verge ...
Cosmic wind blowing at 20,000 mph generated by black hole
[caption id="attachment_11732" align="alignnone" width="539" caption="This artist's impression of a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091. The ...
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