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The James Webb Space Telescope is known for being able to see deep into space, providing scientists (and us) with some of the ...
The Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is 26,000 light-years away from us. It is four million times ...
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...
Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...
UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...
Around 13.8 billion years ago, a tiny but dense fireball gave birth to the vast cosmos that holds trillions of galaxies, ...
Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...
Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...
Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...
Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...
Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...
A regular black hole would have the light ring and the outer horizon, but also an inner horizon, which would enclose a core ...