Astronomers just detected the biggest black hole jets ever …
WEB2 days ago · The largest known black hole jets, 23 million light years across, have been discovered in the distant universe. This pair of particle beams launched by a supermassive black hole is over a hundred ...
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
WEB3 days ago · The jumbo jets blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy. Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. "This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about ...
Hubble finds more black holes than expected in the early universe
WEB4 days ago · The new observational results suggest that some black holes likely formed by the collapse of massive, pristine stars during the first billion years of cosmic time. These types of stars can only ...
Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the ... - NPR
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists say is the fastest-growing black hole ever...
First data from XRISM space mission provides new perspective on ...
WEB2 days ago · The galaxy’s black hole sits at the center, immediately surrounded by an accretion disk shown in blue. Image credit: JAXA. Some of the first data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about the galactic neighborhoods of supermassive black holes.
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
WEBJul 10, 2024 · If confirmed, it is closer to Earth than the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole in the center of the Milky Way. That black hole is 26,000 light-years away, while Omega Centauri is 17,700 light-years from us.
Black Holes News -- ScienceDaily
WEB3 days ago · Black Holes in Space. Read science articles on colliding supermassive black holes, simulated gravitational waves of a black hole, black hole theory and more. Astronomy images.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
WEBNov 6, 2023 · By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale signature of a growing black hole just 470 million years after the big bang. Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the Chandra and ...
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
The black hole at the Milky Way's center has finally ... - Science News
WEBMay 12, 2022 · New observations from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal the turbulent region around our home galaxy’s black hole, Sagittarius A*, in extreme detail.