"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope." ...

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A black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is behaving like no other black hole astronomers have ever seen. "It was completely unexpected," Giovanni Miniutti, an astronomer at Spain's Center of ...

Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the giant black hole in the center of our galaxy and found that it is wrapped in powerful, spiraling magnetic fields. The new image of Sagittarius A* (often ...

Recent observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, illustrated alongside a new image from NASA's Hubble Space ...

An actively feeding black hole surrounds itself with a disk of hot gas and dust that flickers like a campfire. Astronomers have now found that monitoring changes in those flickers can reveal something ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Astronomers have finally linked the size of a supermassive black hole to the spectral patterns generated by its eating habits. Most nearby supermassive black holes are dormant. These ...

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Some supermassive black holes announce their presence with screaming hot disks of orbiting gases. But the behemoth at the center of the Milky Way has been shy and demure. Now, astronomers have finally ...

Aug. 12 (UPI) --Astronomers have finally linked the size of a supermassive black hole to the spectral patterns generated by its eating habits. Most nearby supermassive black holes are dormant. These ...