Astronomers believe that at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies sits a titanic black hole with a mass that is millions or even billions of times that of our sun. These supermassive black holes ...
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are now better understood thanks to a recent breakthrough in astronomical research.
Observational astronomy shows that newly discovered young stellar objects (YSOs) in the immediate vicinity of the ...
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making without the light and fury of a ...
Joint research led by Michiko Fujii of The University of Tokyo demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of ...
A simulation showed black holes with masses between 100 and 10,000 times that of the sun could be born through a chaotic chain of stellar collisions. Researchers have discovered that elusive ...
Based on estimates of the black hole's mass, and that of the disrupted star, they were able to come up with an estimate for the black hole's spin -- less than 25 percent the speed of light.
Distance: Roughly 1,560 light-years away, located in the constellation Ophiuchus. (For comparison, the nearest star to our Sun is only 4.24 light-years distant.) Detection Method: Gaia BH1 doesn't ...
A new paper in Astroparticle Physics by Imre Bartos and Oscar Barrera from the Department of Physics at the University of ...
Researchers have discovered that elusive intermediate-mass black holes could form in dense star clusters containing anywhere ...
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making without the light and fury of a ...
Medium and mighty: Intermediate-mass black holes can survive in globular clusters Date: May 30, 2024 Source: School of Science, The University of Tokyo Summary: New research demonstrated a ...