Egg-shaped galaxies may be aligned to the black holes at their hearts, astronomers find
Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...
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Astronomers Just Mapped the ‘Invisible’ Corona of Black Holes — Here’s Why It Matters
If you’ve ever witnessed a solar eclipse, you might recall the Sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — a halo of glowing ...
Simulations reveal black holes inherit magnetic fields from parent stars
Black holes are one of the most enigmatic stellar objects. While best known for swallowing up their surroundings into a ...
Caltech Astrophysicists Flip Black Hole Theories With Stunning New Simulations
Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...
Milky Way's Core And Supermassive Black Hole Imagery Transformed Into Sound
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
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Monster black holes are trapped in an eternal dance
NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...
Twin Titans: NASA Tracks Two Monster Black Holes Tearing Up a Distant Galaxy [Video]
Astronomers, using data from NASA’s Swift Observatory, have identified an extraordinary recurring signal from two massive black holes in a galaxy a billion light-years away. Known as AT 2021hdr, this ...
A spider stellar engine could move binary stars halfway across a galaxy
Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...