Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

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The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major ... like a star or cloud of gas gets too close to an inactive black hole and artificially brightens it for just ...

Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of a Black ... Evidence of Primordial Black Holes May Be Hiding in Planets, or Even Everyday Objects Here on Earth Dec. 2, 2024 — A theoretical ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky ... 270 million light-years from Earth. The mass of the black hole in the new observations, called ...

The galaxy harbors a central black hole weighing about 1.4 million solar masses and is located 270 million light-years from Earth ... or cloud of gas gets too close to an inactive black hole ...

(In 2022, Gaia data included the closest-known black hole to Earth, a relatively small compact object just 1,600 light-years away.) In June of last year, scrutiny of Gaia data indicated that ...

They propose that a spinning, compact core of a dead star – a white dwarf – is orbiting dangerously close to the black hole’s event horizon ... a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and Earth.com.

Using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI), the researchers observed the AGN in NGC 1068 – one of the closest active galaxies to the Milky Way. The images reveal new details about how ...