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

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"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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 Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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.