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 ...
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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 ...
Achieving the unbelievable: taking a picture of a black hole
Black Holes are the least understood entities, so far, in the Universe. However, if there's one thing scientists know for ...
Half of supermassive black holes are surrounded by ‘dust clouds’
Black holes are perhaps the most fascinating and staggering objects in the known Universe, and we are just now beginning ...
Most distant quasar in known Universe found
Astronomers have discovered the most distant quasar known so far, dubbed ULAS J1120+0641, powered by a supermassive black hole with a ...
Dormant Supermassive black hole arises stronger than ever
It's still unclear if it was all about a stellar meal or if it was simply gas, or some other ...
Black hole in Dragon’s belly swallows star and everything goes nutty from here
The Draco constellation (which ...
Previously unseen huge structure located within our galaxy
Researchers have confirmed the presence of a previously undiscovered structure located in the center of the Milky Way, a discovery ...
Nasa’s picture of the day
This is a wicked one for sure! Basically, nobody really knows what's going on there, except for the fact that ...