Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...
Astronomers spotted a distant supermassive black hole launching record-speed winds after an intense X-ray flare, revealing ...
A supermassive black hole was caught twisting spacetime, offering the clearest real-world evidence yet for Einstein’s ...
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission has solved a longstanding astrophysical puzzle regarding the generation of powerful X-rays by black hole jets.
NASA’s IXPE identifies the source of X-rays in the black hole jet of galaxy 3C 84, confirming inverse Compton scattering and ...
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disk wobbles. In this context, the wobble refers to the orbit of material surrounding the ...
Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...
A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...
What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...
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