Apr 6, 2023 · This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It's likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes.

Sep 30, 2022 · Many of Hubble’s first observations showed the effects of supermassive black holes on their immediate galactic environment. In 1990, shortly after launch, Hubble imaged a 30,000-light-year-long jet emanating from a galaxy known to be a prodigious emitter of radio light.

Astronomers used Hubble to measure the velocities at which stars and gas swirl around a black hole, to catalog black holes in active and quiescent galaxies. A Hubble census of galaxies showed that supermassive black holes are commonly found in a galaxy’s center.

Sep 17, 2024 · With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported.

Jan 12, 2023 · When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole.

Sep 26, 2024 · The supermassive black hole in the core of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 shoots out a blazing bright jet of plasma racing across space at nearly the speed of light. It makes the "Death Star" beam in the Star Wars trilogy look like a wimpy candle flame lighter.

Sep 9, 2024 · The Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory looked in the heart of a pair of colliding galaxies and uncovered twin supermassive black holes waltzing around each other. The black hole duo, engorged with infalling gas, blazes brightly as …

Dec 5, 2024 · The Hubble coronograph allowed astronomers to look eight times closer to the black hole than ever before. Scientists got rare insight into the quasar's 300,000-light-year-long extragalactic jet of material blazing across space at nearly the speed of light.

Feb 11, 2021 · Astronomers found something they weren't expecting at the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6397: a concentration of smaller black holes lurking there instead of one massive black hole. Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, which host stars that are closely packed together.

Jul 10, 2024 · Now, an international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope — spanning two decades of observations — to search for evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole by following the motion of seven fast-moving stars in the innermost region of the globular star cluster Omega Centauri.