NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Week showcases stunning images, from the vibrant Butterfly Nebula to the iconic Horsehead Nebula, revealing the universe’s beauty and the fascinating process of planet formation.
The black hole, called GRS 1915+105, lies nearly 28,000 light-years away. Using India’s AstroSat observatory, researchers spotted alternating bright and dim X-ray phases.
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia have spotted massive clouds of cold hydrogen gas hiding within the Fermi bubbles.
The light was coming from SDSS1335+0728, a modest spiral galaxy. This galaxy had been quiet for more than two decades.
The Sombrero Galaxy, also called Messier 104, sits around 31 million light-years away. It’s located in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a once-quiet black hole has woken up.
Astronomers are baffled by EP240408a, a rare cosmic explosion that defies explanation, sparking theories of a black hole and white dwarf collision or a new, unknown phenomenon.
Astronomers discover unique collision between black hole jet and unidentified object in Centaurus A galaxy, shedding new light on cosmic dynamics.
A supermassive blackhole feasted on the fluffy disk of swirling gas, these disks are the remains of the shredded and trapped stars. These supermassive black holes have mass millions and billions of times heavier than of our Sun.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has produced an immersive visualization on a supercomputer through which viewers can jump into the event horizon, which is known as the black hole’s point of no return, the US space agency said on May 6
India has now become the second country after the US to have such a specialised “observatory” of this kind to study black holes. ISRO spent Rs 250 crore (approximately $30 million) on the XPoSat satellite
Given the universe is 13.7 billion years old, that puts the age of this black hole at 13.2 billion years.
Black holes are objects so dense that, according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, not even light can escape them.
The two realms of gravity and quantum physics have long seemed to have nothing to do with each other; this left scientists ill-equipped to understand what happens in an extreme situation like a black hole or the beginning of the universe. But a blizzard of research on black holes in the past decade has revealed unexpected connections between the two views of the cosmos
NASA has released the haunting audio clip of a black hole at the center of a galaxy cluster
The black whole contains matter equivalent to the mass of three suns. Researchers say others of this size stopped growing rapidly billions of years ago.
Sagittarius A* possesses 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years -- the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) -- from Earth.
NASA has shared a mesmerising video of a black hole, but it comes with a warning.
If NASA scientists are able to confirm that a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy is causing the light fluctuations, it would greatly enhance our understanding of the Universe.
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The research was conducted by the Event Horizon Telescope project, a collaboration started to try to directly observe the immediate environment of a black hole using a global network of Earth-based telescopes.
The photo was taken with the help of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project — a multinational collaboration of observatories, which was started in 2012.
Black holes are phenomenally dense celestial entities with gravitational fields so powerful no matter or light can escape, making them extraordinarily difficult to observe despite their great mass.
A black hole, three-million times the size of the Sun, in the centre of our galaxy is all set to devour an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2.
