Going against the flow around a supermassive black hole At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used […]
Total annihilation for supermassive stars A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and focus on a new breed of supernova that can utterly annihilate its […]
Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is relatively quiet. It’s not an active nucleus, spewing light and heat into […]
Researchers decipher the history of supermassive black holes in the early universe Astrophysicists at Western University have found evidence for the direct formation of black holes that do not need to emerge from a star […]
Detection of powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole from La Palma The supermassive black holes in the centres of many galaxies seem to have a major influence on their evolution. This happens during […]
Cool, nebulous ring around Milky Way’s supermassive black hole New ALMA observations reveal a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This nebulous […]