Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
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Gaia Detected an Entire Swarm of Black Holes Moving Through The Milky Way
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...
Astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
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U of A researchers capture sharpest images yet of a supermassive black hole
A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.
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Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
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Strange Flashes Could Be Signs of Closest Object Seen Near a Black Hole
Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...