Tag: Black Holes
The light-bending dance of binary black holes
A binary black holes is a pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun's mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in...
MeerKAT joins the ranks of the world’s great scientific instruments through...
IMAGE 1: MeerKAT First Light image. Each white dot represents the intensity of radio waves recorded with 16 dishes of the MeerKAT telescope in...
X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of ‘killer’ black...
In this artist's rendering, a thick accretion disk has formed around a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star that wandered...
Hubble finds clues to the birth of supermassive black holes
This artist's impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Two of these possible seeds were discovered by an...
Astrophysicists detect most luminous diffuse gamma-ray emission from Arp 220
Griffin and Dai developed the data collection methodology used to detect the gamma-ray emission from Arp 220.
Credit: University of Oklahoma and NASA
A University of...
Intense wind found in the neighborhood of a black hole
an artistic view of the accretion disc surrounding the black hole V404 Cygni, where the intense wind detected by GTC becomes evident. Credit: Gabriel...
Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place
This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s...
Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe
A sky survey image of the massive galaxy NGC 1600, and a Hubble Space Telescope closeup of the bright center of the galaxy where...
Supernovae showered Earth with radioactive debris
False color image of Cassiopeia A using Hubble and Spitzer telescopes and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An international team of scientists has found evidence of...
