Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
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Milky Way's Massive Black Hole Spaghettified Filament Of Gas
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
'Size of 36-billion-suns': Astronomers discover ultramassive black hole in cosmic horseshoe
Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking ultra-massive black hole, weighing 36 billion solar masses, at the heart of the ...
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Scientists Turn James Webb to Examine Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy and Saw Something Wild
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered 13 billion years in the past and tens of billions of light-years away from our ...
One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...