But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The Whirlpool Galaxy is an astrophotography classic, all swirling arms and bright stars. A new composite image of optical and X-ray wavelengths layers in a map of neutron stars and black holes ...

The Whirlpool galaxy, M51, is merging with its smaller neighbor, NGC 5195. It's expected that...[+] mergers like this will cause the black holes at the center to become active, but both black ...

Yet like a spiraling whirlpool, a black hole is currently removing so much gas from Pablo's Galaxy that it can no longer normally form stars. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

Last week, scientists presented us with another episode of The Scary Supermassive Black Hole Diaries. Right in the center of our home galaxy, a gargantuan void named Sagittarius A* has been caught ...

Astronomers have found a "burping" supermassive black hole is 26 million light-years from Earth in the Messier 51 galaxy (which includes the picturesque Whirlpool galaxy).

The third data sonification is of Messier 51, more popularly known as the Whirlpool Galaxy for the swirling view from Earth of its spiral arms. "The radius is mapped to notes of a melodic minor scale.

Ever wish you had x-ray vision? NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory does and used it to make this eerie, new view of the famous Whirlpool Galaxy in Hunting Dogs constellation. Gone are the familiar ...

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. More deals, reviews, and buying ...