CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their galaxies consolidated just 740 million years after the universe-forming Big Bang. It’s the most distant detection ever made of merging black holes, scientists reported Thursday. One black hole is 50 million … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant … Read more
Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Reveals Milky Way‘s Black Hole Spinning at High SpeedsCAMBRIDGE: A groundbreaking study utilizing data from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) has unveiled that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is … Read more
