Swirling beauty of the Milky Way galaxy’s heart is captured in a new telescope picture
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A telescope in Chile has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
Webb Detects Unexpected Richness of Hydrocarbons in Obscured Core of Nearby Ultra-Luminous Galaxy
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered an unprecedented richness of small gas-phase hydrocarbons —…
Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as…
Event Horizon Telescope Pinpoints Possible Origin of Messier 87’s Black Hole Jet
Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes — have identified…
Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say
How the most massive objects in the universe first formed is one of the biggest headscratchers in astrophysics.…
Back from the dead, a black hole is erupting after a 100-million-year hiatus
Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio…
New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Supermassive black hole grows 13 times faster than cosmic speed limits
Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that is growing at a…
Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
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…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…