Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
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See The Milky Way's Sagittarius A* Black Hole In An Amazing Polarized Event Horizon Telescope Image
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...
The First Monster Black Hole Ever Imaged Is Changing Before Our Eyes
First Step on the Way to a Video of the Black Hole In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration made history by ...
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First-Ever Photographed Black Hole Shows Dramatic Changes In Follow-Up Observations
The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...
Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
Six planets align in rare celestial event visible from Earth through mid February
Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.
The 1st monster black hole ever imaged has messy eating habits
A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...