New-found galaxy survived the greedy forces of a quasar Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put an end to the life of their host galaxy. In that process […]
Feeding a galaxy’s nuclear black hole A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that stretches across the inner regions of some galaxies. The bar stretches from one inner spiral arm, […]
Black hole ‘family portrait’ is most detailed to date An international research collaboration including Northwestern University astronomers has produced the most detailed family portrait of black holes to date, offering new clues as to how […]
The Grantecan finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, […]
The spin of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way Once a black hole forms, its intense gravitational field produces a surface beyond which even light cannot escape, and it appears black to outsiders. […]
The black hole always chirps twice: Scientists find clues to decipher the shape of black holes A team of gravitational wave researchers led by the ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) report […]