The finding solves a longstanding mystery, originally presented by Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen and astrophysicist Jacobus Petterson in 1975.
It's funny how the efforts of hundreds of astronomers have been converted into memes.
The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.
Indian scientists have hailed the compilation of the first ever real images of a blackhole as an "extraordinary feat" that sheds more light on the mysterious, warped region of the space-time fabric and how galaxies like our Milky Way evolve over time.
Amitabh Bachchan is on a roll! His latest tweet directed to Shoojit Sircar is a proof.
Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers created the picture showing the violent neighborhood around a supermassive black hole, the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorized by Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades.
"It is remarkable that such massive dense objects were able to form so soon after the Big Bang," said Michael Strauss, a professor at Princeton University in the US
Researchers from Northwestern University in the US are getting closer to understanding the mysteriously bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer.
The scientists used recent astrophysical models of Sagittarius A* to create a series of images that were then put together to create a 360 degree virtual reality simulation of the black hole, that can be viewed on widely available VR consoles.
Researchers are also applying the successful machine-learning algorithm to find new kinds of signals that could be coming from extraterrestrial civilisations.
The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, in a pair of colliding galaxies 150 million light-years from Earth.
It is being estimated that the gravitational waves detected last year may have led to the lowest mass black hole ever found, says the scientist who analysed data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
In what is being hailed as a "groundbreaking discovery", astronomers have for the first time observed two supermassive black holes orbiting around each other in a distant galaxy.
Washington: Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered a jet from a very distant super-massive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the universe.The discovery shows that black holes with powerful jets
Bangalore: An Indian astrophysicist says the recent observation by NASA scientists of giant flares of X-rays from a black hole confirms his theory that the so-called black holes are not "true" black holes but actually
New Delhi: When most people think of supermassive black holes, they think of large, destructive forces sucking up everything which gets in its field of gravity. However, researches have now discovered that they may have
Washington: The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos, say NASA scientists.Neutrinos are tiny particles that carry no charge and interact very weakly with electrons
Los Angeles, Jun 17: Astronomers think they have solved the mystery of an extraordinary flash spied in a faraway galaxy, saying it came from a massive black hole that devoured a star after it wandered
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