Tagged: black hole

Why it’s on the run is unclear, but its unusual velocity may be caused by a recent merger or an unseen partner. A supermassive black hole, about 3 million times more massive than the sun, is on the run. Around 230 million light-years from Earth,...

A gamma-ray burst provides strong evidence for an elusive and highly sought after breed of black hole. Scanning through a catalog of over 2,700 energetic deep space explosions captured by NASA’s Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, James Paynter’s task was to find a needle in a needle...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers from the University of Alabama in Huntsville have investigated the central region of the galaxy NGC 1600, focusing on its ultramassive black hole (UMBH). Results of the study, presented in a paper published February 11 on the arXiv pre-print...

New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects. Published today in the journal Science, the research shows the system known as Cygnus X-1 contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy: How it looks in polarized light. This is the first time...

There are two ways to build a supermassive black hole. But neither of them makes much sense. About 10 million light-years from Earth, a blurry galaxy named Mirach’s Ghost may help unravel a dark mystery: where the largest black holes in the universe came from....

The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought, according to new research out of Japan. Not only that but our solar system is moving faster than thought as it orbits...

Powerful jets launched from Sagittarius A* may have stripped the stars’ atmospheres away. Beginning in the 1990s, astronomers noticed a disturbing lack of red giant stars in the Milky Way’s center. Theories abounded to explain the absence, and now a new theory proposes something truly...

In a breakthrough discovery, scientists have found the most distant quasar yet known — and it’s home to a seriously supermassive black hole. Astronomers led by researchers at the University of Arizona spotted the brilliant quasar about 13.03 billion light-years from Earth. Quasars are among...

A US Navy veteran has claimed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) that was spotted by pilots from the USS Nimitz may have opened up a black hole to travel as fast as it did. Gary Voorhis was a computer technician on the USS Princeton in...