This diagram shows how the diameter of the 17-billion-solar-mass giant black hole, in the heart of galaxy NGC 1277, compares with the orbit of Neptune
Astronomers have found biggest Black Hole blast ever, in the heart of a Quasar burning 100 times as much energy as the entire Milky Way
The Milky Way’s enormous Black Hole unleashes the brightest flare ever, 100 times more powerful than anything ever produced before. Image credit: NASA/MIT/F. Baganoff et
Astronomers using NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a new black hole, by a rise in high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high
In this NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory image, you can see an extraordinary outburst produced by a black hole, in a nearby galaxy, a direct evidence
This illustration compares the size of a neutron star to Manhattan. The crushed core of a star that has exploded as a supernova, a neutron
It’s leap year time… so what are years, anyway? And what do they have to do with the supermassive black hole in the core of
An international team of astronomers has identified a candidate for the smallest-known black hole using data from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The evidence
This image, from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows a truly remarkable galaxy known as NGC 3621. However this galaxy is bulgeless but has three
New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of
Using the Hubble space telescope, astronomers have captured a direct image of the disk surrounding a black hole. Among the brightest objects in the sky,
