"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...
A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...
This illustration shows a binary black hole at the centre of the quasar Markarian 231, outshining billions of stars. This image shows a possible seed for a supermassive black hole. Two seeds were ...
The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...
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