Supermassive Black Hole

Researchers made a fascinating discovery at the heart of our galaxy: "strange filaments" driving a cycle of gas emissions and replenishment.

Gas Cycles

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us."

Scientists Detect "Strange Filaments" at the Heart of Our Galaxy

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.

Sucked Up

It's in for a rude awakening.

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers have spotted evidence that a distant star has wrapped itself around a supermassive black hole, a process known as "spaghettification."

Somebody Accreted My Spaghet!

The process is known as "spaghettification."

Scientist Spot Star That's Been Stretched Out and Wrapped Around a Black Hole

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.

Kill It With Fire

That's not what they were expecting at all.

Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.

Pac Man Black Hole

Look on the bright side — at least this isn't happening to our Sun.

A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.

Hol Up

It's gotta be here somewhere!

A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

Congrats!

I mean, same.

Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: "I Would Not Want To"

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.

Tangled Up

It was feasting, spider-like, on six entire galaxies it had ensnared in a gigantic cosmic web.

Astronomers Spot Galaxies "Trapped" by Giant Black Hole

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

Not Quite 24 Frames Per Second

"If you want to see a black hole evolve over a decade, there is no substitute for having a decade of data."

Astrophysicists Release Landmark "Movie" of Wobbling Black Hole

Astronomers have observed that two bubbles around the center of the Milky Way are spitting out clusters of cold molecular gas "like bullets."

Shooting Blanks

They have no idea what's behind it.

Astronomers Detect "Bullets" of Gas Shooting Out of Our Galactic Center

After the first-ever image of a black hole, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing out jets of particles.

Spinning Black Circle

It's the "equivalent of someone on Earth identifying an orange on the Moon."

Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.

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