Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.
There’s a party in the galactic centre. We may have found the first solid evidence of a dense conference of stars around the Milky Way’s heart, which may one day help us observe the supermassive black hole living there.
New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Eduardo Bañados has discovered 63 new quasars out in the deep reaches of space.
You don’t have to know a whole lot about science to know that black holes typically suck things in, not spew things out. But NASA just spotted something mighty strange at the supermassive black hole Markarian 335.
Astronomers have recently discovered unusual source of intense radiation that is likely powered by a “direct-collapse black hole,” a type of object predicted by theorists more than a decade ago.
Scientists and Astronomers have witnessed an amazing event of a star being ripped apart by a black hole, and they were able to observe and study this special class of black holes in full detail for the first time.
The supermassive black holes found at the centre of every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, may, on average, be smaller than we thought, according to work led by University of Southampton astronomer Dr Francesco Shankar.
