Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet - Astronomy
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 …
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.
First data from XRISM space mission provides new perspective on ...
WEB4 days ago · The galaxy’s black hole sits at the center, immediately surrounded by an accretion disk shown in blue. Image credit: JAXA. Some of the first data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black holes.
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...
NASA's Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo
WEBSep 9, 2024 · While several dozen "dual" black holes have been found before, their separations are typically much greater than what was discovered in the gas-rich galaxy MCG-03-34-64. Astronomers using radio telescopes have observed one pair of binary black holes in even closer proximity than in MCG-03-34-64, but without confirmation in …
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.
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 …
Webb telescope uncovers merger of two massive black holes …
WEBMay 16, 2024 · The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. Scientists reported Thursday that these two gigantic and distant black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years after the universe-forming Big Bang.
‘Sleeping giant’ massive black hole found in the Milky Way galaxy - CNN
WEBApr 16, 2024 · CNN — Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space.