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Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...
Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...
We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...
A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...
Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...
“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...
Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, in a tribute to ...
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...
The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...