A pair of stars, designated D9, has been identified orbiting Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, according to a study published in Nature Communications. This is the first time a binary star system has been detected in close proximity to such an immense gravitational force. The finding was … Read more
A supermassive black hole located at the center of a distant galaxy has been observed turning back on after a period of dormancy, emitting jets of hot gas into space. This event, which occurred in the galaxy 1ES 1927+654, roughly 270 million light-years away, marks the first time such an event has been witnessed in … Read more
The supermassive black hole M87*, located 55 million light-years away in the Messier 87 galaxycontinues to intrigue astronomers with its dynamic and chaotic behaviour. Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have revealed notable turbulence in the accretion flow—the stream of gas and plasma that feeds the black hole. The black hole, which has a … Read more
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed a supermassive black hole ejecting a jet of plasma traveling at one-third the speed of light. This rare phenomenon, located 270 million light-years away in the constellation Draco, centers around the black hole at the heart of galaxy 1ES 1927+654, which holds a mass 1.4 billion times … Read more
Astronomers have detected the longest black hole-driven jet observed in the early universe, stretching at least 200,000 light-years—twice the width of the Milky Way. The discovery was made in a quasar identified as J1601+3102, which existed when the universe was only 1.2 billion years old. Despite the immense size of its jet, the supermassive black … Read more