Astronomers have just discovered two galaxies that were previously invisible to us. Located 29 billion light-years away from the Earth — which, in galactic terms,…
They detect an intermediate mass black hole with a gravitational lens
Australian researchers have detected, thanks to a gravitational lens, a black hole of about 55,000 solar masses, a kind of body whose formation process has…
Astronomers detect a black hole beyond our galaxy for the first time
A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 1850. Credit: ESA, NASA and Martino Romaniello (European Southern Observatory, Germany). It is a cluster of thousands…
Astronomers may have detected a strange ‘missing link’ black hole in our closest neighbor
Globular cluster B023-G78 in the Andromeda galaxy. (Pechetti et al., ArXiv, 2021) A rare treasure that could shed light on the evolution of black holes…
A new study proposes that the expansion of the universe directly impacts the growth of black holes
Since the first observation of black hole mergers by the LIGO Laser Interferometer’s Gravitational Wave Observatory in 2015, astronomers have been repeatedly surprised by their…
They manage, for the first time, to observe light ‘behind’ a black hole
While observing the powerful X-ray emissions launched into space by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away, Stanford…
Scientists detect a ‘tsunami’ of gravitational waves
Two black holes merge to become one. Credit: NASA A team of international scientists, including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), have unveiled the…
Discover a hidden black hole in our neighboring galaxy.
The astronomers found it using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and observed how the black hole’s gravity affects the…
State-of-the-art energetic and morphological modelling of the launching site of the M87 jet
The supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87 is surrounded by an accretion disk (red in this computer simulation) and launches jets (blue) circled by…
Einstein’s Equivalence Principle verified for the first time in quasars
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI) Scientists from the University of Granada and the Instituto de Astrophysical de Canarias have been able to measure…