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This is an artist’s impression of a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole distorts the space around it, which warps images of background stars lined up almost directly ...
A galaxy projector is the room hack everyone needs If you've scrolled through social media lately, you've probably noticed something twinkling in the background of countless posts: galaxy projectors.
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is always up to something unusual. Now, astronomers have spotted strange new objects close by — and they aren't quite sure ...
Scientists aren't sure what causes a galaxy's mid-life crisis, but the supermassive black hole at many of these objects' centers may be responsible.
An illustration comparing the Milky Way with 2MASX J23453268−0449256. Bagchi and Ray et al. / Hubble Space Telescope The extreme black hole is not the only unusual feature of 2MASX J23453268− ...
Galaxy IC 5249 (circled) is a spiral galaxy viewed edge on from Earth. That galaxy looks similar to a trail of light previously suggested to be stars that formed in the wake of a runaway black ...
Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of Galaxy M87 (Multiwavelength) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on YouTube Unlike Perseus' black hole, this one has a far higher pitch, and can ...
The scientists calculated the size of the supermassive black hole that may lurk inside M60-UCD1 by analyzing the motions of the stars in that galaxy, which helped the researchers deduce the amount ...