By Sheetal Kumari | May 02, 2025
Supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, showing a glowing ring around a dark center.
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A black hole 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun, imaged by the EHT, with a shadow outlined by hot gas swirling around it.
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A galaxy with a supermassive black hole, imaged by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and IXPE satellite, showing a 13,000 light-year-long jet.
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An elliptical galaxy with a black hole-powered jet, imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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A galaxy with a giant black hole, imaged by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, showing a 40,000 light-year-wide “H” shape
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The most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays, imaged by NASA’s Chandra and Webb space telescopes, with X-ray emission indicating growth.
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A galaxy with two supermassive black holes, imaged by ESO/Voggel et al., expected to merge within 250 million years.
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A NASA animation compares the size of Sagittarius A* to other supermassive black holes, showing its 4.3 million solar masses
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