07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... opening. Now, closer to home, researchers have been able to shed a different type of light on our own supermassive black hole to reveal a never-before-seen disk of cold, interstellar gas wrapped around its periphery. Known as Sagittarius A* (A “star...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
...12 years, how long it takes for two supermassive black holes, roughly 750 million light years away from Earth, ...years of work and its implication could be far reaching. “Supermassive black holes have a lot of influence on the stars around them and the...
11 January 2019
Birth of a black hole possibly captured for first time
... supernovas ever recorded could have marked the birth of a black hole or neutron star say astronomers. If correct, this would ...creation of something never seen before. “We know that black holes and neutron stars form when stars collapse and explode...
22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
...reality however, each of those white dots is an active supermassive black hole in its own galaxy. Taken by an international team of ...low radio frequencies – the map shows 25,000 supermassive black holes in just 4 percent of the northern half of the...
06 May 2020
Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth
...can happen in systems with a similar configuration to HR 6819 or LB-1, but where the inner pair is made up of two black holes or of a black hole and a neutron star. The distant outer object can gravitationally impact the inner pair in such a way ...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... and object 33160. The team state that “These objects represent the most stringent observational identification of black hole seed candidates, likely formed as DCBHs, so far obtained. The possible presence of markers of DCBH activity, such as the...
