There could be planets around the black hole at the heart of our galaxy, scientists say
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There could be planets around the black hole at the heart of our galaxy, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever binary star near a supermassive black hole. In the past, scientists have thought that it may be possible for stars to even survive the harsh environment around a supermassive black hole. The work is described in a new paper, ‘A binary system in the S cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*’, published in the journal Nature Communications.

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That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole
3 weeks, 1 day ago

That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole

NPR  

That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole toggle caption CfA/Melissa Weiss A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside our Milky Way galaxy, according to a report that's appearing …

Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
55 years, 2 months ago

Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way

Wired  

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the sun: a potential supermassive black hole. But at least 21 hypervelocity stars detected are consistent with being ejected by a supermassive black hole …

There could be planets around the black hole at the heart of our galaxy, scientists say
3 months, 1 week ago

There could be planets around the black hole at the heart of our galaxy, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of …

Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy
3 months, 1 week ago

Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy

Hindustan Times  

NEW YORK — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. HT Image Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart. Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they've never seen …

Famous picture of black hole in our galaxy might not be accurate, research says
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Famous picture of black hole in our galaxy might not be accurate, research says

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of …

Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Is on Crash Course, Space-Time Ripples Reveal
1 year, 8 months ago

Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Is on Crash Course, Space-Time Ripples Reveal

Live Mint  

Supermassive black holes all over the universe are merging, a fate that will eventually come for the black hole at the center of our galaxy. “The Milky Way galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy, and in about 4.5 billion years, the two galaxies are set to merge,” said Joseph Simon, a University of Colorado, Boulder, astrophysicist …

Our galaxy's black hole not as sleepy as thought: astronomers
1 year, 9 months ago

Our galaxy's black hole not as sleepy as thought: astronomers

The Hindu  

The supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy is not as dormant as had been thought, a new study shows. The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* -- abbreviated to Sgr A* -- is four million times more massive than the Sun. Sgr A* has "always been seen as a dormant black hole," said Frederic Marin, …

New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole
1 year, 11 months ago

New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole

The Hindu  

Expanding upon the historic first images of black holes, scientists on Wednesday unveiled the first picture showing the violent events unfolding around one of these ravenous cosmic behemoths, including the launching point of a colossal jet of high-energy particles shooting outward into space. The supermassive black hole pictured resides at the center of a relatively nearby galaxy called Messier 87, …

Watch | What a black hole looks like
2 years, 10 months ago

Watch | What a black hole looks like

The Hindu  

Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope facility, a collaboration of over 300 researchers, revealed the first image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy. The black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is four million times the mass of our Sun and is 27,000 light years from us. Astronomers have called this “the first direct image of …

Q&A: She discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy. This week, she finally saw it
2 years, 10 months ago

Q&A: She discovered the black hole at the center of our galaxy. This week, she finally saw it

LA Times  

The supermassive black hole on the left is at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy. Feryal Özel, a University of Arizona astronomer and founding member of the EHT consortium, said that seeing the black hole’s image was like finally meeting in real life a person you’ve only interacted with online. Though she wasn’t involved with the EHT project, she …

First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed
2 years, 10 months ago

First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

India TV News  

Highlights Global team of radio astronomers reveals first image of supermassive black hole The supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy The results are being published in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters A global team of radio astronomers have on Thursday unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole …

Scientists get never-before-seen look at supermassive black hole in our galaxy – and find unknown star nearby
3 years, 3 months ago

Scientists get never-before-seen look at supermassive black hole in our galaxy – and find unknown star nearby

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have taken an unprecedented look at the supermassive black hole in our …

Nasa finds first possible planet outside our galaxy
3 years, 5 months ago

Nasa finds first possible planet outside our galaxy

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Nasa telescope might have found the first ever planet outside of our …

First planet outside Milky Way Galaxy detected: Saturn-like object is orbiting a black hole
3 years, 5 months ago

First planet outside Milky Way Galaxy detected: Saturn-like object is orbiting a black hole

India Today  

Objects hanging in the vacuum of the cosmos orbiting a star have been detected throughout the galaxy, these exoplanets have been a source of enhancing our understanding of the conditions beyond our solar system. Astronomers have now gone a step further and detected the first planet not just beyond the solar system but beyond the entire stretch of the Milky …

Mystery Around 'Missing' Supermassive Blackhole Deepens, Here's What We Know So Far
4 years, 3 months ago

Mystery Around 'Missing' Supermassive Blackhole Deepens, Here's What We Know So Far

News 18  

A supermassive black hole in the universe remains to be undetected by scientists at NASA and the experts are coming up with new explanations so as to why such a huge structure is not getting discovered even with technological advances. According to NASA, nearly every large galaxy in the universe has been found to have a supermassive black hole in …

Race to find black hole at the center of the Milky Way nets Nobel Prize in physics
4 years, 5 months ago

Race to find black hole at the center of the Milky Way nets Nobel Prize in physics

LA Times  

Two groups of scientists have been locked in a competition to prove the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, seen above from the ESO Observatory in Chile. It began as a high-stakes race to peer across 26,000 light years of space and find evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of …

Astronomers saw a star dancing around a black hole. And it proves Einstein’s theory was right
4 years, 11 months ago

Astronomers saw a star dancing around a black hole. And it proves Einstein’s theory was right

CNN  

CNN — For the first time, astronomers have observed a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. “Einstein’s general relativity predicts that bound orbits of one object around another are not closed, as in Newtonian gravity, but precess forwards in the plane of motion,” said Reinhard Genzel, in a statement. The same team …

Can planets revolve around black holes? Calculations show possibility of bizarre worlds
5 years, 4 months ago

Can planets revolve around black holes? Calculations show possibility of bizarre worlds

India Today  

In a recent study, the researchers profound a new theory that there is a possibility of thousands of planets around a supermassive black hole. "With the right conditions, planets could be formed even in harsh environments, such as around a black hole," said Keiichi Wada, professor at Kagoshima University researching active galactic nuclei which are luminous objects energized by black …

Thousands of planets could be orbiting around black holes like we orbit around the sun, scientists say
5 years, 4 months ago

Thousands of planets could be orbiting around black holes like we orbit around the sun, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of planets could be orbiting around black holes just like we orbit …

Supermassive black hole and beyond
5 years, 9 months ago

Supermassive black hole and beyond

The Hindu  

ASTRONOMERS now have a fairly good idea of the chaotic and crowded neighbourhood surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, that is about 26,000 light years from the earth. At this temperature, the gas glows fiercely in X-ray light, allowing it to be studied by space-based X-ray telescopes, down to scale of about a tenth …

Black hole image: Scientists reveal first ever photo from Event Horizon telescope – as it happened
5 years, 11 months ago

Black hole image: Scientists reveal first ever photo from Event Horizon telescope – as it happened

The Independent  

✕ Close Scientists unveil first ever picture of black hole Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An international scientific …

First closeup image of a black hole ever taken might be unveiled on 10 April
5 years, 11 months ago

First closeup image of a black hole ever taken might be unveiled on 10 April

Firstpost  

The closest supermassive black hole to us is thought to be at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The international team of astronomers and engineers behind the Event Horizon Telescope project is seeding news publications days ahead of what ScienceAlert reports could be the first-ever photo of a black hole’s event horizon. If true, the ESO’s 10 April event …

WHAT IS THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE SAGITTARIUS A*
6 years, 2 months ago

WHAT IS THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE SAGITTARIUS A*

Daily Mail  

The galactic centre of the Milky Way is dominated by one resident, the supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. Less than one per cent of the material initially within the black hole’s gravitational influence reaches …

Sagittarius A*: Take a virtual tour into supermassive black hole heavier than 4 million suns
6 years, 4 months ago

Sagittarius A*: Take a virtual tour into supermassive black hole heavier than 4 million suns

India Today  

Scientists for the first time have created a virtual reality simulation of Sagittarius A* - the black hole at the centre of our galaxy - that allows viewers to better visualise the phenomenon. The authors suggest that this virtual reality simulation could be useful for studying black holes. "Our virtual reality simulation creates one of the most realistic views of …

Mystery objects spotted come close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole baffle scientists
6 years, 9 months ago

Mystery objects spotted come close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole baffle scientists

Daily Mail  

Astronomers have spotted several mysterious structures close to the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. The 'weird structures' appear to be able to survive the immense force of gravity of the Milky Way's black hole, known as Sagittarius A* 'These compact dusty stellar objects move extremely fast and close to our Galaxy's supermassive black hole,' said Dr …

Thousands of black holes 10 times the mass of our sun may be hiding in Milky Way's centre
6 years, 11 months ago

Thousands of black holes 10 times the mass of our sun may be hiding in Milky Way's centre

India Today  

Astrophysics has helped in the revelation of thousands of black holes which may be hiding in Milky Way - the galaxy which houses our solar system A team of astrophysicists from the US has discovered as many as a dozen black holes. These black holes have gathered around Sagittarius A* which is the supermassive black hole in the centre of …

10,000 black holes discovered at the center of Milky Way
6 years, 11 months ago

10,000 black holes discovered at the center of Milky Way

India Today  

In a recent study by New York's Columbia University, astrophysicists have detected a dozen black holes gathered around Sagittarius A at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. "Everything you'd ever want to learn about the way big black holes interact with little black holes, you can learn by studying this distribution," said Columbia Astrophysicist Chuck Hailey, Co-director of the …

Scientists discover 10,000 black holes hiding at centre of Milky Way
6 years, 11 months ago

Scientists discover 10,000 black holes hiding at centre of Milky Way

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists have long suspected that there might be a host of smaller black holes surrounding the supermassive …

Astronomers are trying to take first picture of black hole at centre of our galaxy
7 years, 11 months ago

Astronomers are trying to take first picture of black hole at centre of our galaxy

India Today  

The black hole at the centre of our galaxy is impossible to spot. Despite giving the theory of general relativity which helped predict them the black hole more than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein almost didn't believe they were real. The effort to picture the large black hole at the centre of our galaxy: A team of 120 astronomers will, …

Giant Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA’s Telescope
8 years, 11 months ago

Giant Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place by NASA’s Telescope

The Quint  

Astronomers from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii have uncovered a supermassive black hole in an unlikely location, indicating that these monster objects may be more common than once thought. The near-record breaking black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, was discovered in the centre of a galaxy, in a sparsely populated area of the universe. “The …

Universe might have far more supermassive black holes than we thought, scientists say
8 years, 11 months ago

Universe might have far more supermassive black holes than we thought, scientists say

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Our universe might be full of supermassive black holes, according to a new …

One of the largest supermassive black holes ever seen is spotted 200 million light-years away
8 years, 11 months ago

One of the largest supermassive black holes ever seen is spotted 200 million light-years away

Daily Mail  

Supermassive black holes patrolling our local region of space may be more common than previously thought after astronomers made a surprise discovery. The supermassive black hole found in NGC 1600 is one of the first successes of the project, and Professor Ma says this proves the value of a systematic search of the night sky. The Coma Cluster is home …

Dwarf galaxy’s 'giant dark heart': Supermassive black hole spotted in a star cluster 500 times smaller than Milky Way
10 years, 6 months ago

Dwarf galaxy’s 'giant dark heart': Supermassive black hole spotted in a star cluster 500 times smaller than Milky Way

Daily Mail  

Nestled in the heart of a dwarf galaxy 54 million light years from Earth is a black hole so big it makes up 15% of the star cluster’s total mass. The supermassive black hole, discovered at the centre of galaxy M60-UCD1, is said to have a mass equivalent to 21 million suns. The astronomers estimated the mass of the dwarf …

Milky Way's black hole set to gobble up giant gas cloud
11 years, 2 months ago

Milky Way's black hole set to gobble up giant gas cloud

Daily Mail  

Milky Way’s mysterious black hole set to gobble up giant gas cloud The gas cloud, named G2, is due to collide with the black hole in March When it does, astronomers believe it will produce spectacular X-rays These X-rays could help scientists understand how black holes eat matter The observations could shed light on the evolution of galaxy and help …

Gas cloud 'stretched like spaghetti' by supermassive black hole
11 years, 8 months ago

Gas cloud 'stretched like spaghetti' by supermassive black hole

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientist have observed a giant gas cloud in its death throes, …

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