06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
.... "ALMA has the revolutionary ability to observe disks of cold gas around supermassive black holes at small enough scales that we can clearly distinguish the black hole's influence on the disc's rotational speed." One advantage that ALMA has over...
22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
...-art telescopes used to observe the Universe in unprecedented detail at low radio frequencies – the map shows 25,000 supermassive black holes in just 4 percent of the northern half of the sky. To make the map, the team used 52 LOFAR antenna...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
... Taylor, the discovery is the result of more than 20 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 growth and evolution of the galaxy," explained...
24 March 2017
Gravitational waves expel black hole from galaxy centre
... Bianchi on the importance of the discovery. "There is already evidence of black hole collisions for stellar-mass black holes, but the process regulating supermassive black holes is more complex and not yet completely understood." It is thought that...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. “This is important because this is our closest supermassive black hole.” Still, the matter of how black holes siphon off material from their surroundings to devour it, a process known as accretion, is still...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... researchers across the globe, a rare blast of light from a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole has been caught in unprecedented detail. Black holes, by their very definition, are extremely difficult to detect. But every now and then...
