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Unraveling the Mystery: How Supermassive Black Holes Grow so Massive
SciTechDaily· 11 hours agoResearchers combined X-ray surveys and supercomputer simulations to track 12 billion years of cosmic...
Baby stars that defy explanation are 'swarming like bees' around Milky Way's supermassive black hole
LiveScience· 3 days agoInexplicably young stars are barreling through space at breakneck speeds as they circle precariously...
A Mysterious Object Is Emitting Microwaves in Deep Space. It's Unlike Anything Ever Known.
Popular Mechanics· 4 days agoNow, a new study compares this object to known celestial objects in this chaotic region of deep...
More than meets the eye - Nature Astronomy
Nature· 3 days agoX-ray binaries (XRBs) are systems where material is being accreted onto a compact object (white dwarf/neutron star/stellar-mass black ...
Astronomers Watch as Supermassive Black Hole Wakes Up
ExtremeTech· 3 days agoThere is a monster lurking in the center of most galaxies, including our own. Luckily for us, the Milky Way's central black hole is relatively calm. There ...
Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per...
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA low-mass star races through the Milky Way at over a million miles per hour, a journey that began...
Scientists may have found an answer to the mystery of dark matter. It involves an unexpected...
CNN.com· 5 days agoExplore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. For...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 4 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin thanks to the object’s chance meeting with a star—which ...
Space Winds Unleashed: First Map of Outflows From Nearby Quasar I Zwicky 1
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoI Zwicky 1. Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered by the supermassive black hole in their...
Explained: What Is a Supernova?
ExtremeTech· 6 days agoEvery so often, a mysterious so-called "guest star" appears in the sky, often far outstripping its cousins in brightness. Astronomers and stargazers have known about such events since at least ...
