By Fan Zou and W. Niel Brandt Pennsylvania, US: Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to billions times the mass of the Sun. These giants usually live in the centers of …
The James Webb Space Telescope could have made one of the most unexpected findings in its first year of operations, said the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) on Thursday. A large number of very faint and small red dots captured from the distant universe could change what scientists understand about supermassive black holes. …
The black hole Sagittarius A* is located about 26,000 light-years away from Earth. The centre of our Milky Way galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole that is spinning so quickly that it is warping spacetime into an oval form resembling a rugby ball. The result is based on a thorough analysis of X-ray …
A new analysis of James Webb Space Telescope data suggests that black holes existed at the dawn of time, helping create new stars and supercharging galaxy formation. This theory could challenge the current understanding that they formed after the first stars and galaxies emerged. The study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters says that black …