The black hole was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, an array linking together radio observatories across the planet. EHT CollaborationIt’s the first picture of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole. The post Gaze upon the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy appeared first on Popular Science…
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Astrophysicists have identified the mechanism that powers black hole flares. By employing computer simulations of unparalleled power and resolution, the researchers found that energy released near a black hole’s event horizon during the reconnection of magnetic field lines powers the flares. The findings hint at exciting new possibilities for observing the region just outside a…
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Astronomers have observed the central regions of Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy previously reported to have a central massive black hole, at optical wavelengths using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Henize 2-10 is located 30 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pyxis…
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There’s no consensus yet on how supermassive black holes form, but a new mesmerizing simulation is taking a crack at that question like never before.
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There’s no consensus yet on how supermassive black holes form, but a new mesmerizing simulation is taking a crack at that question like never before.
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New research led by astronomers from the Harvard & Smithsonian’s Center for Astrophysics shows that the current census of supermassive black holes is incomplete and that a substantial population of off-center wanderers likely exists. Supermassive black holes are thought to exist at the center of most large galaxies, including the center of our own Milky…
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