Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
A flash of extraordinary intensity suddenly illuminated the cosmos in 2018, capturing the attention of astronomers with its ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole sitting at the core of the Milky Way. It has a mass of 4.3 million times our ...
"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...
The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...
Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...
An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.