Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
2024年6月19日 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the ... - NPR
2024年2月20日 · Scientists in Australia have just found exactly that. New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists...
Flare from supermassive black hole M87 astounds in images | UCLA
2024年12月13日 · The first-ever photo of a black hole rocked the world in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, published an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, located in the constellation of Virgo.
Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed …
2024年9月25日 · Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in length, making...
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
2023年11月6日 · X-ray emission is a telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed. These images show the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 that UHZ1 is located behind, in X-rays from Chandra and infrared data from Webb, as well as close-ups of the black hole host ...
NASA Finds ‘Sideways’ Black Hole Using Legacy Data, New …
2024年12月18日 · Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 5084’s core. A dark, vertical line near the center shows the curve of a dusty disk orbiting the core, whose presence suggests a supermassive black hole within. The disk and black hole share the same orientation, fully tipped over from the horizontal orientation of the galaxy.
Binary star discovered orbiting supermassive black hole at centre …
2024年12月17日 · This image shows the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. ( Supplied: ESO/F. Peißker et ...
Webb Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole to …
2023年7月6日 · Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any other yet identified in the early universe.
Supermassive black hole is most distant ever found, as Webb ... - CBS News
2024年3月5日 · They determined the structure was a supermassive black hole, the largest type of black hole. It's the most distant black hole of this size ever seen. The black hole is likely "vigorously" growing ...
Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected - BBC
2024年2月20日 · It's a quasar - the bright core of a galaxy that is powered by a gargantuan black hole some 17 billion times the mass of our Sun. Known as J0529-4351, the object's power was confirmed in ...