Astronomers Discover Evidence of a Stealthy Supermassive Black Hole Hiding Right ‘Under Our Noses’
The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a giant secret
Astronomers Just Found a Hidden Supermassive Black Hole Right Next Door
Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors. This groundbreaking discovery, made using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission,
Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy
A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor.
NASA Just Found a Supermassive Black Hole Rotating the Wrong Way
Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be completely tilted relative to its galaxy’s structure. This discovery, hidden for years in archival data,
Massive Black Hole Defies Physics: Discovery Challenges Our Understanding of Galaxy Formation
Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging our current theories of galaxy evolution.
Unexpected JWST Observations Hint We Might Be Inside A Black Hole
A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, not predicted by our current understanding of the universe,
Black holes spew out powerful jets that span millions of light-years. We're trying to understand their whole life cycle
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...
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The Man Who Helped Predict Black Holes, Both Real and Hypothetical
The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...
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Hidden monster black hole in the galaxy next door fired stars at us like million mph cosmic bullets
"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...
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The Beast’s environment: How a supermassive black hole shapes the fate of the Milky Way
At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way's nearest neighbor
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
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7 Weird Facts About Black Holes
For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...
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Two huge black holes merged into one and went flying across the cosmos
A supermassive black hole that doesn't appear to be where we would expect seems to be travelling at more than a thousand ...
When Two Massive Black Holes Merged And Went Flying Across Cosmos
The researchers propose that this ejection resulted from the collision of two galaxies, causing their central black holes to ...