Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingly Close to …
Apr 17, 2024 · The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars...
'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong': How astrophysicist …
2 days ago · These collapse directly into black holes, and they start off at something like 100,000 times the mass of the sun, that makes it much easier to get to supermassive black hole [mass scales].
Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the ... - NPR
Feb 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...
NASA Animation Sizes Up the Universe’s Biggest Black Holes
May 1, 2023 · The new NASA animation shows 10 supersized black holes that occupy center stage in their host galaxies, including the Milky Way and M87, scaled by the sizes of their shadows. Starting near the Sun, the camera steadily pulls back to compare ever-larger black holes to different structures in our solar system.
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
Jul 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.
Are tiny black holes zipping through the solar system? - Los …
Sep 17, 2024 · Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the universe. But can it be proven?
A 'primordial' black hole may zoom through our solar system …
Sep 17, 2024 · If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational distortions.
Astronomers snap first-ever image of supermassive black hole ... - MIT News
May 12, 2022 · The new image of Sgr A* follows the first-ever image of a black hole, which was obtained by the EHT in 2019. That groundbreaking image was of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, a galaxy located 53 million light years from Earth.
Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found | ESO
Apr 16, 2024 · Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission because it imposes an odd ‘wobbling’ motion on the companion star orbiting it.
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of …
May 12, 2022 · Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy. 12 May 2022. Today, at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy.