A binary system containing a massive star and possibly a black hole, together being a source of intense X-rays, has been shown to be a smaller-scale example of some of the brightest quasars on Earth. Universe. New findings from an international team used NASA‘S Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft (IXPE), approximately 24,000 images of an… Read More »
A bright quasar powered by a supermassive black hole is blasting radiation that pushes surrounding gas clouds to produce winds reaching speeds of about 36 million miles per hour (58 million kilometers per hour). Oh, and the quasar is almost as old as the universe itself. The discovery, made by a team of scientists led… Read More »
Just 900 million years after the Big Bang, a pair of quasars have been discovered spiraling towards a massive merger, illuminating the “cosmic dawn”. They are the first quasar The couple was detected this far back in cosmic time. Quasars are growing rapidly supermassive black holes in the nuclei of the hyperactive galaxies. Showers of… Read More »
As astronomers chronicle the growth of galaxies by combining X-ray observations with detailed supercomputer models, the history of the dark hearts of galaxies has been told almost completely for the first time. supermassive black holes More than 12 billion years of cosmic history. By doing this, scientists showed that there is a black hole at… Read More »
What happened after the thermonuclear explosion? binary star System observed approximately 3,400 light-years away Hubble space telescope. HM Sagittae, or HM Sge for short, is a system known as the symbiotic system. white dwarf feeding on a friend red giant star. The stolen material forms an accretion disk orbiting the white dwarf. If too much… Read More »
The “shaking” remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black hole have helped reveal the spin rate of the cosmic predator. Supermassive black holes are believed to be born through successive mergers of smaller black holes; Each of these brings with it angular momentum that accelerates the… Read More »
Black hole week is in full swing at this point, and to celebrate, NASA has released stunning observations of the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, as well as the monster supermassive black hole that lives within that heart. The observations were carried out by the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), led by the… Read More »
Scientists used artificial intelligence to create a three-dimensional model of an energetic explosion, or flare, occurring around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). This 3D model could help scientists develop a clearer picture of the turbulent environment that generally forms around supermassive black holes. The material orbiting Sgr A* is found… Read More »
A hiccuping supermassive black hole has alerted astronomers to an entirely new kind of black hole behavior. In 2020, at the heart of a galaxy about 800 million light-years from Earth, a black hole with a mass equivalent to 50 million suns suddenly exploded, illuminating the material around it by a factor of 1,000. A… Read More »
A newly discovered quasar is a real record breaker. It is not only the brightest quasar ever seen, but also the brightest astronomical object ever seen overall. It is also powered by the hungriest and fastest-growing black hole ever seen; This black hole consumes the equivalent of the mass of one Sun per day. Quasar… Read More »