Gravitational wave observations have revolutionized our understanding of black holes, revealing crucial details about their masses and spins. These measurements, collected from binary black hole ...

Using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Because of this, the scientists behind the study were able to get a look at 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc," a part of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The arc is about 6.5 billion light-years away from ...

Each surge of matter could have been powerful enough to pump the black hole’s size larger, yet brief enough to avoid prolonged bright emissions. The host galaxy seems to have avoided building many ...

Hideki Matsuyama broke the 72-hole PGA Tour tournament scoring record on Sunday, firing an eight-under par 65 to finish on 35-under par 257 and win the Sentry tournament. The 32-year-old Japanese ...

In particular, motivated by the apparent success in globular cluster M15, we present an estimate of the central black hole mass for a number of globular clusters with available velocity dispersion in ...

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A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri ... in the center of this dense cluster to high speeds. "We have long known about supermassive black holes at galaxy centers and smaller stellar ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ... is the first ancient galaxy cluster ever found and has been studied ...