09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
... with simulated stars to the high-precision data for the innermost high-velocity stars close to the supermassive black hole,” said Marzieh Parsa, PhD student at the University of Cologne, Germany and lead author of the recently published...
27 September 2019
TESS sees its first rare star-shredding event
...time, NASA's planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has watched it happen. The bringer of doom is a supermassive black hole that sits at the centre of a galaxy called 2MASX J07001137-6602251 located around 375 million light-years...
22 March 2017
Massive quasars can be powered by direct collapse black holes say scientists
... star collapses. It was then postulated that perhaps DCBHs helped form another type of perplexing object – supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Supermassive black holes are some of the most important objects in the Universe. Not only do they drive the...
05 April 2018
Newly discovered black holes suggests thousands more in our galaxy
... from Columbia University, helps support a long standing theory that thousands of black holes surround supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centre of large galaxies, but with black holes being what they are, it is a theory that up until now has...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
..., this soon to-be-devoured material could be the beacon that gives the black hole away. Although astronomers have long suspected that a supermassive black hole – called Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) – lurks at the centre of our galaxy, capturing concrete...
03 January 2018
Mass of black holes determines star formation history
... rest of the galaxy put together. It is believed that this outpouring of radiation is a result of the accretion of matter by a supermassive black hole at the centre of its host galaxy and as the energy is dispersed, it heats and dispels the gas that...
