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1 day ago · Black hole science took a big step in 2019 when the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole. That SMBH was in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy over 50 million ...
2 days ago · Surprisingly unspectacular: Black hole already weighed over a billion solar masses in the early universe despite average appetite. Peering into the early stages of the 13.8 billion-year-old universe, the James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a galaxy as it existed just 700 million years after the Big Bang. It is puzzling how the black hole at ...
5 days ago · Weighing in at almost 33 solar masses (M ☉), the black hole is the most massive stellar-origin black hole known in our Milky Way. Its existence is an important test for our theories of stellar evolution, which have struggled to explain how black holes can get so big.
4 days ago · In the new simulation, the researchers performed what they call a "super zoom-in" on a single supermassive black hole, a monstrous object that lies at the heart of many galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
2 days ago · Astrophysicists have discovered an unusual outburst phase of a black hole binary source Swift J1727.8-1613 1. It emitted X-rays with quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) while sucking in matter from ...
5 days ago · These black holes are between 100 and 1,000 times as massive as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way that sits just 26,000 light-years from...
1 day ago · Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A* ( / ˈsædʒ ˈeɪ stɑːr / SADGE-AY-star [3] ), is the supermassive black hole [4] [5] [6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, [7] visually close to the Butterfly Cluster ...
