Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA …
1 day ago · This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers have discovered this low-mass supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
Gas-churning monster black holes - ScienceDaily
1 day ago · AT 2021hdr: A candidate tidal disruption of a gas cloud by a binary super massive black hole system. Astronomy & Astrophysics , 2024; DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451305
Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed …
Sep 25, 2024 · CNN — Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in...
Webb telescope reveals rapid growth of primordial black hole
Nov 5, 2024 · The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8 ...
Physicists discover first “black hole triple” - MIT News
Oct 23, 2024 · A team of physicists at MIT and Caltech report finding a black hole that hosts two stars, one very close and one very far away. The discovery challenges the conventional view of black hole formation and suggests a more gentle process of direct collapse.
Two NASA telescopes capture closest pair of supermassive black holes …
Sep 10, 2024 · CNN — Two telescopes have spotted the closest pair of supermassive black holes to date. The duo, only about 300 light-years apart, were observed in different wavelengths of light using NASA’s...
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally ... - Science News
May 12, 2022 · Astronomers have captured the shadow of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, using a network of radio telescopes. The image shows a bright ring of glowing...
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
Jul 10, 2024 · Astronomers used Hubble images to measure the motions of seven fast-moving stars in the center of the huge globular cluster Omega Centauri. They found evidence for a black hole with a mass of 8,200 times that of the sun, a rare candidate for …
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
May 6, 2024 · Experience the effects of general relativity and the event horizon of a supermassive black hole in this immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer. Watch the camera approach, orbit, and plunge into the monster black hole, or see how it …
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Nov 6, 2023 · Using Chandra and Webb telescopes, astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass similar to its host galaxy's stars. This may be the first evidence of an "Outsize Black Hole" that formed from a huge cloud of gas soon after the big bang.