20 September 2017
A new way to 'weigh' extragalactic black holes
...from Moscow State University have found a new way to estimate the mass of elusive supermassive black holes located outside of the Milky Way. Black holes are notoriously difficult; difficult to find and difficult to study. In the past researchers have...
26 July 2019
Three massive black holes caught in the act of merging
.... AGN is short for Active Galactic Nuclei and they are thought to be powered by centrally located supermassive black holes. Not all black holes are monstrous feeding machines. Some, like the one at the centre of our galaxy, are relatively...
26 May 2016
Are primordial black holes the source of dark matter?
...hide," Kashlinsky said. "The failure to find them has led to renewed interest in studying how well primordial black holes – black holes formed in the universe's first fraction of a second – could work as dark matter." Kashlinsky explains that for the...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
...years ago to describe a GRB originating in a gravitational collapse leading to the formation of a Kerr-Newman BH. The Kerr-Newman black hole identified by Enderli and team is linked to a gamma-ray burst first found by the Fermi/GBM instrument in 2009...
24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
... world, when in a series of simultaneous press conferences held around the globe, gave humanity its first view of a black hole. It was the culmination of nearly two years of work by 200 international scientists from numerous institutions, who spent...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... opening. Now, closer to home, researchers have been able to shed a different type of light on our own supermassive black hole to reveal a never-before-seen disk of cold, interstellar gas wrapped around its periphery. Known as Sagittarius A* (A “star...
