Last Updated: Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 16:22
Nearly 10 years ago, NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 10:28
Using ESA`s Herschel space observatory , astronomers have made detailed observations of surprisingly hot molecular gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole,
Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 13:19
When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, a new study has revealed.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 14:04
Using the ALMA, astronomers have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 12:56
Scientists have identified a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the dizzying rate of once every 2.4 hours, smashing the previous record by nearly an hour.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 13:50
Scientists have discovered an extremely rare triple quasar system, located 9 billion light years away - and it is only the second-ever to be spotted.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:42
The outer reaches of a `supermassive` black hole, more than two million miles across, or eight times the earth-moon distance, is spinning at nearly the speed of light.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 23, 2013, 12:51
Black holes are voracious absences at the center of galaxies that shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy.
Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2013, 10:39
A highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy, new data from NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory have suggested.
Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2013, 19:09
Scientists have developed a new technique of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes which they say could revolutionise our understanding of how they form and help to shape galaxies.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 12, 2013, 12:28
Astronomers have discovered the largest structure ever seen in space, which stretches 4 billion light-years across.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 12:22
Researchers have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
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