Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
WEB6 days ago · The jumbo jets blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy. Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. "This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about ...
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
WEBJul 10, 2024 · If confirmed, it is closer to Earth than the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole in the center of the Milky Way. That black hole is 26,000 light-years away, while Omega Centauri is 17,700 light-years from us.
Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the ... - NPR
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists say is the fastest-growing black hole ever...
Black Holes News -- ScienceDaily
WEB3 days ago · Black Holes in Space. Read science articles on colliding supermassive black holes, simulated gravitational waves of a black hole, black hole theory and more. Astronomy images.
NASA's Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo
WEBSep 9, 2024 · The Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory looked in the heart of a pair of colliding galaxies and uncovered twin supermassive black holes waltzing around each other. The black hole duo, engorged with infalling gas, blazes brightly as active galactic nuclei (AGN). They are approximately 300 light …
Study proves black holes have a ‘plunging region,’ just as ... - CNN
WEBMay 17, 2024 · Using telescopes capable of detecting X-rays, a team of astronomers has for the first time observed this area — called the “plunging region” — in a black hole about 10,000 light-years from ...
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
WEBNov 6, 2023 · By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale signature of a growing black hole just 470 million years after the big bang. Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the Chandra and ...
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally ... - Science News
WEBMay 12, 2022 · New observations from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal the turbulent region around our home galaxy’s black hole, Sagittarius A*, in extreme detail.
BREAKING: We Have The First-Ever Image of The Black Hole
WEBMay 12, 2022 · The achievement comes three years after the collaboration released the first image of a black hole's shadow ever obtained – a supermassive black hole named M87*, clocking in at 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun, at the center of a …