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Mysterious flashes from a distant black hole puzzles astronomersAstronomers have observed strange behaviors in a distant black hole. Plasma jets are moving fast, and X-ray flashes are increasing in frequ...
In a first, astronomers discover binary star system near supermassive black holeAstronomers have discovered the first-ever binary star system, D9, orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*. This findin...
NASA and AstroSat capture explosive eruptions from stellar remnants near massive black holeAn international team of astronomers, including experts from Pune’s IUCAA, has made significant strides in understanding black hole-star dy...
India's AstroSat and NASA's Space observatories capture dramatic eruptions from stellar wreckage around a massive black holeIndian and American astronomers have observed a rare event where a massive black hole is tearing apart a star and using the debris to pumme...
Astronomers find massive black hole closest to Earth that is 8,200 times the size of the Sun. Watch Nasa video hereBlack Hole Omega Centauri (Google Trends): Astrophysicists using Hubble Space Telescope images have identified a potential intermediate-mas...
ESA’s Gaia mission discovers 2 closest-ever black holes to earth; Details hereScientists have discovered the closest black hole, BH1, to Earth in our cosmic backyard using the Gaia satellite. This discovery is signifi...
Supermassive black hole sends jet pointing towards Earth after tearing apart a star, say astronomersAstronomers captured a bright flare emanating from a dying star being torn apart by a supermassive Black Hole launching relativistic jets t...
Scientists find huge black hole in Earth's backyardThe other stellar-mass black holes were revealed by their energising interactions with a companion star, despite the fact that there are pr...
NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way's 'downtown'It's a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, depicting billions of stars and c...
- Astronomers discover orbiting supermassive black holes
San Francisco, June 28 (IANS) In what is being hailed as a "groundbreaking discovery", astronomers have for the first time observed two sup...
- Indian scientists find new ways to detect 'naked singularity'
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) In a significant find, a team of scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) here has found n...
Hundreds of undiscovered black holes spotted in star clusterGlobular clusters are spherical collections of stars which orbit around a galactic centre such as our Milky-way galaxy.
Gravitational waves form 10 million years after black holes mergeUntil now, it was not possible to conclusively predict the point at which gravitational waves are triggered and spread throughout space whe...
'Giant black hole 660 million times bigger than Sun'The mass of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a nearby giant elliptical galaxy is 660 million times greater than that of the Sun, ...
Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion Suns: StudyThe study suggests that without a disc, the black hole would stop growing, meaning 50 billion Suns would roughly be the upper limit.
A nearby black hole just erupted for the first time in 26 years and scientists are ecstaticOn June 15, one of NASA's satellites picked up a torrent of x-rays all coming from a single source: the black hole.
Mystery of bizarre object at the centre of our galaxy solvedA bizarre object in the centre of the Milky Way which has puzzled astronomers for years is most likely a pair of binary stars that merged t...