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 very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving these energetic outbursts.
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
About 13 billion light-years away there is a supermassive black hole actively sending out a spectacular beam of energy directly towards Earth. Interestingly, this isn't just any black hole; it's a ' ...
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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Strange Flashes Could Be Signs of Closest Object Seen Near a Black HoleBlack holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...
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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