Tag: Galaxies
Astronomers Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Roaring to Life
Five years ago, a galaxy 300 million light-years away got a lot brighter in telescopes,…
Recent Cosmic Collision Shakes Up Milky Way History
Evidence of the Milky Way’s past is encoded in wrinkles of stars, whose positions and…
Webb Spots Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen—and It’s Weirdly Bright
Researchers recently observed a record-breaking galaxy beaming with young stars, which existed only 290 million…
Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light
This week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of…
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
A team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black…
Webb Discovers Record-Breaking Black Hole Merger in Ancient Universe
The cutting-edge Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant black hole merger yet, which…
Some of the Oldest Stars Were Just Found in Our Own Galaxy
Some stars in our very own Milky Way are some of the earliest ever seen,…
Astronomers Discover Heaviest Stellar Black Hole in the Milky Way
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is the undisputed heavyweight champion…
New Image Exposes Intense Magnetic Field of the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
A new image of our galaxy’s central black hole reveals the magnetic field surrounding the…
