Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA …
13 hours ago · This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers have discovered this low-mass supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes
15 hours ago · Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy. “It’s a very weird event, called AT 2021hdr, that keeps recurring every few months,” said Lorena Hernández-García, an astrophysicist at […]
Gas-churning monster black holes - ScienceDaily
11 hours ago · AT 2021hdr: A candidate tidal disruption of a gas cloud by a binary super massive black hole system. Astronomy & Astrophysics , 2024; DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202451305
Discovery of 'black hole triple' may be first direct evidence of ...
Oct 23, 2024 · A new study reveals a black hole that orbits two stars, one close and one far, in the V404 Cygni system. The discovery suggests that some black holes may form from direct collapse of stars,...
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
Nov 6, 2023 · Using Chandra and Webb telescopes, astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass similar to its host galaxy's stars. This may be the first evidence of an "Outsize Black Hole" that formed from a huge cloud of gas soon after the big bang.
NASA's Hubble Finds More Black Holes than Expected in the Early ...
Sep 17, 2024 · There seems to be countless black holes in the universe – space-time rabbit holes that forever swallow anything passing nearby. The most massive black holes, weighing millions or billions of times as much as our Sun, lurk in the centers of galaxies.
First 'black hole triple system' discovered by astronomers
Oct 24, 2024 · V404 Cygni, a stellar black hole with two stars as companions, was found to be a rare and unusual case of a "gentle" black hole formation. The system, located 7,800 light-years from Earth, was originally thought to be a binary system with a passing star.
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
Jul 10, 2024 · Astronomers used Hubble images to measure the motions of seven fast-moving stars in the center of the huge globular cluster Omega Centauri. They found evidence for a black hole with a mass of 8,200 times that of the sun, a rare candidate for …
NASA's Hubble Finds that a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar …
Sep 26, 2024 · In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory.
NASA Animation Sizes Up the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes
May 1, 2023 · See how the universe's biggest black holes, including TON 618, dwarf our solar system and each other. Learn how they form, merge and produce gravitational waves in this NASA video.