Tagged: black holes

– Astronomers watch as Nasa telescope captures rare event – Phenomenon only occurs once every 100million years Stunning: This illustration shows plasma shooting out of the black hole after it devours a star. Such an event took place four billion light years from Earth Swift’s...

Black holes belong to some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe. Despite plenty of research there is still a lot we don’t know about these giant monsters and some scientists are wondering if these objects are of artificial origin. Is it possible black...

Astronomers have discovered yet another giant black hole hiding within the Milky Way, but this one is unusual. The black hole is about 100,000 more massive than the sun and this discovery can help scientists help scientists shed new light on the process by which...

Astronomers at the University of Florida and the University of Texas at San Antonio, have observed the magnetic field of a black hole within the Milky Way from multiple wavelengths. The object of their study is the black hole called V404 Cygni (a binary microquasar...

Using data collected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope on galaxies up to 3.5 billion light years away from Earth, astrophysicists were able to detect what is likely to be the most massive black holes ever discovered in the universe. The team studied 72 galaxies located...

On Nov. 11, 2014, astronomers picked up signals created by an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole rips apart a passing star. Since then, the celestial event has been continuously observed by the best radio telescopes. Scientists from MIT and Johns...

A dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy have been detected by New York’s Columbia University astrophysicists. Columbia astrophysicists have discovered 12 black hole-low mass binaries orbiting Sgr A* at the...

Fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe that devours a mass equivalent to our sun every two days, has been discovered by astronomers at ANU. The astronomers – using the SkyMapper telescope at the ANU Siding Spring Observatory – have looked back more than 12...

Among the most extreme events taking place in the universe, there is special moment when a star wanders too close to the supermassive black hole in the center of its galaxy. The star will be torn apart by the black hole’s gravity in a violent...

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that wandered too close to the cosmic monster. The scientists tracked the event...