Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed …
WEB2 days ago · Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in length, making these ...
Hubble Space Telescope suggests our ancient universe was …
WEB3 hours ago · Given how small the observed patch of the night sky was, finding three AGN powerful enough to mark billion-solar-mass black holes in such an early epoch of time greatly exceeds expectations (for ...
XRISM’s X-Ray Insights Uncover the Hidden Structures of Black Holes …
WEB15 hours ago · JAXA’s XRISM X-ray telescope captured the distribution of matter falling into the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 4151 over a wide radius, spanning from 0.001 to 0.1 light-years. By determining the speed of the iron atoms from their X-ray signature, scientists have mapped out a sequence of structures surrounding the central ‘monster ...
This Black Hole Has a Cosmic Wingspan - The New York Times
WEB2 days ago · Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies. An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long ...
Two NASA telescopes capture closest pair of supermassive black holes …
WEBSep 10, 2024 · CNN — Two telescopes have spotted the closest pair of supermassive black holes to date. The duo, only about 300 light-years apart, were observed in different wavelengths of light using NASA’s...
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet - Astronomy
WEBSep 18, 2024 · The jumbo jets blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy. Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. "This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about ...
NASA's Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo
WEBSep 9, 2024 · While several dozen "dual" black holes have been found before, their separations are typically much greater than what was discovered in the gas-rich galaxy MCG-03-34-64. Astronomers using radio telescopes have observed one pair of binary black holes in even closer proximity than in MCG-03-34-64, but without confirmation in other wavelengths.
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole …
WEBJul 10, 2024 · If confirmed, it is closer to Earth than the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole in the center of the Milky Way. That black hole is 26,000 light-years away, while Omega Centauri is 17,700 light-years from us.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
WEBNov 6, 2023 · By combining data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers was able to find the telltale signature of a growing black hole just 470 million years after the big bang. Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the Chandra and ...