Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
Hubble Captures Active Spiral Galaxy: Messier 88
A newly-released Hubble image shows Messier 88, a black hole-powered spiral galaxy that is gradually plunging toward the…
Active Galactic Nucleus Tori: Potential Birthplace to Millions of Planets
Transition between different accretion regimes as shown by the shading and top labels. From left to right the…
Webb Peers into Brilliant Heart of Messier 77
New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 as a…
Astronomers Captured a Rare Image of a Supermassive Black Hole Erupting Like a Cosmic Volcano After 100 million Years of Silence
This LOFAR DR2 image of J1007+3540 superimposed over an optical image by Pan-STARRS shows a compact, bright inner…
Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,”…
Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of NGC 4102
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a luminous galactic center and majestic spiral arms in this new view…
Astronomers Discover Farthest Black Hole Yet
The newly-discovered supermassive black hole sits in the center of a ‘little red dot’ galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9 and…