"This is a promising sign that there continues to be new and exciting avenues to explore tidal disruption events and use them as probes of supermassive black holes." ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research.

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery ...

Supermassive black holes typically rotate with the galactic plane, expelling X-rays perpendicular to the plane itself. However, NASA recently discovered that galaxy NGC 5084—located 80 million ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before ...

They have uncovered evidence that points to a massive black hole that spent ages in a “quiet” phase when everything around it in the early universe roared with activity. Scientists studying cosmic ...

Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...

The black hole mystery is no longer hidden as scientists have uncovered a new way to detect them. According to SciTech Daily, the origin of the supermassive black holes is one of the greatest ...

Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA Background: Hypointense lesions on T1 weighted ...