Active Galaxy NGC 1275
Active galaxy NGC 1275 is the central, dominant member of the large and relatively nearby Perseus Cluster of Galaxies. Wild-looking…
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Black holes are time machines, with a catch
Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to…
Never-Before-Seen Eruption Sees Black Hole Burp Material Years After It Ate Star
Supermassive black holes tear stars to pieces when they approach too closely. This is known as a tidal disruption event…
A Strange Object Orbits The Milky Way’s Black Hole Every 70 Minutes
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object, which they believe is a giant hot bubble of gas around the Milky Way’s…
Black hole ‘spaghettified’ a star into a doughnut shape and astronomers captured the gory encounter
The black hole wrapped the layers of the shredded star around itself to form the perfect doughnut of doom. The…
Newly Discovered ‘Mini’ Supermassive Black Hole Is Among The Smallest Ever Found
Amongst the most perplexing are supermassive black holes, millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun. Since black…
S5-HVS1: Fastest Star Ejected by Milky Way’s Black Hole
During the period when our ancient ancestors were evolving learning to walk use their hands and create basic tools remarkable…
NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Snacking on Star
Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors….
New Class Of Strange Objects Discovered Orbiting The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole that weighs more than 4.6 million times as much as our Sun, is located…
A star being squeezed like a toothpaste tube by a supermassive black hole generated a mysteriously brilliant flash that emitted more light than 1,000 TRILLION suns
According to research, a mysteriously brilliant light in the sky was created by a supermassive black hole “squeezing like a…