Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...
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 ...
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...
In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...
NASA telescopes reveal 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden by dust, reshaping theories about their role in galaxy ...
Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...
Kimberly WeaverNASA Goddard Space Flight Center Some of the most enigmatic objects in the Universe are giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). Yet after 30 years of study, we don’t know precisely how ...
The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO. PRIMO is short ...
Amid the city’s lack of support for CCIs, a contrasting trend emerges — the rise of creative hubs. These provide essential ...
Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...