Black holes have been an object of fascination ever since Einstein predicted them in 1916 using his then newly developed theory of general relativity. We have come a long way since then. Kip Thorne calculated …
A truly enormous black hole been discovered in the constellation Cetus with a mass equivalent to 40 billion times that of our sun. Put another way, this black hole is so enormous that its mass …
Could life exist on a planet orbiting a supermassive black hole? And if so what would existence on such a planet be like? Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in …
This week, the world of astronomy has been abuzz with news of the very first supermassive black hole image. The supermassive black hole is located 55 million light-years away at the center of M87, a …
The image above shows the Milky Way stretching across the sky, with Sgr A*, the area of space that contains both the center of the galaxy and a super massive black hole, directly above the …
Stellar black holes formed after a massive star gravitational collapses have masses ranging from between 5 and 100 times that of the Sun. Supermassive black holes (SMBH) that lurk at the centre of galaxies, on …
Astronomers have now brought the Event Horizon Telescope online, and turned it towards the supermassive black hole situated at the center of our Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The 10-day project will run …
Gravitational waves have long been a puzzle for scientists, and while Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity predicted their existence, the renowned physicist was on record as saying he wasn’t sure they could exist. This year, …
An international team of astronomers have discovered a huge quasar 420 trillion times brighter than our sun around 12.8 billion light years away from Earth, placing its formation around 875 million years after the big …
According to the latest data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), galaxy mergers may not be necessary in order to create supermassive black holes, but instead could have formed early in the universe’s …
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