Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

Because our own galaxy’s central black hole is roughly a thousand times less massive than M87*, the churning maelstrom around Sagittarius A* can change about a thousand times faster, too ...

If a binary black hole system caused the 2.2-year periodic variation in PG 1553+153, then we should also be able to see a longer pattern of variation, about every 10 to 20 years, when the clumps ...

Published: December 5, 2024 8:40am EST Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks.

Like a parasite sucking the life from its host, an international group of scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a distant galaxy of essential materials to make new ...

In 2023, Messier 87, became the first black hole image sharpened with AI and the telescope also took stellar images of the “buff” whirlpool galaxy Messier 51.

Peering into the heart of our galaxy with unprecedented clarity, astronomers have recently released a new image that offers a glimpse of the magnetic maelstrom surrounding Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the ...

This region surrounds the central massive black hole. Before the gas drops into the black hole, it forms a rotating disk, accelerates to high speeds, and is heated to thousands of degrees through ...