Astronomers Discover Rare Triple Black Hole System in Milky Way, Challenging Formation Theories

Astronomers Discover Rare Triple Black Hole System in Milky Way, Challenging Formation Theories

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Astronomers have identified a black hole with a tightly bound companion star and a distant third star in orbit, forming the first-known “black hole triple” system. This discovery, detailed in recent research led by Kevin Burdge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), sheds new light on how some black…

Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way Is Spinning Unexpectedly

Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way Is Spinning Unexpectedly

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Sagittarius A* (pronounced Sagittarius A Star), the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, is spinning in an unusual way, and scientists now believe they may know why. Based on new data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers suggest that this cosmic giant likely merged with another…

NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed

NASA Citizen Scientists Discover Mysterious Object Moving out of Milky Way at an Extremely High Speed

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On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, driven by citizen scientists, uncovered an astonishing discovery: an object travelling at a staggering speed of 1 million miles per hour, enough to escape the Milky Way’s gravitational grasp. This hypervelocity object, known as CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, marks the first of…

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Leaving Behind Trail of Newborn Stars

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A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in its wake, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US. Captured accidentally by NASA‘s Hubble Space Telescope, the…

Galaxies Spotted by Webb Space Telescope Rewrite Prior Understanding of Universe

Galaxies Spotted by Webb Space Telescope Rewrite Prior Understanding of Universe

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Observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are upending the understanding of the early universe, indicating the presence of large and mature but remarkably compact galaxies teeming with stars far sooner than scientists had considered possible. Astronomers said data obtained by the telescope reveals what appear to be six big…

Astronomers Spot Hot Gas Bubble Spinning Clockwise Around Milky Way Black Hole

Astronomers Spot Hot Gas Bubble Spinning Clockwise Around Milky Way Black Hole

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Astronomers said Thursday they have spotted a hot bubble of gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy at “mind blowing” speeds. The detection of the bubble, which only survived for a few hours, is hoped to provide insight into how these invisible, insatiable, galactic…

Fastest-Growing Black Hole in the Universe, 7,000 Times Brighter Than the Entire Milky Way

Fastest-Growing Black Hole in the Universe, 7,000 Times Brighter Than the Entire Milky Way

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Scientists have discovered the fastest-growing black hole in the last 9 billion years. The black hole, which sends multi-wavelength light blazing across the universe, shines 7,000 times brighter than the entire Milky Way galaxy. Due to this, it is also known as a quasar. For those who don’t know, quasars…

Astronomers May Have Discovered a Black Hole Candidate Through Gravitational Microlensing

Astronomers May Have Discovered a Black Hole Candidate Through Gravitational Microlensing

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A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, has discovered what appears to be a free-floating black hole for the first time by observing the brightening of a more distant star as its light was distorted by the object’s strong gravitational field — a phenomenon known as gravitational…