UC Berkeley astronomers found a hidden black hole roaming far from the galaxy’s core. It may eventually merge with the ...

Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...

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Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with ...

Eventually, as the black hole encounters a star, its immense gravity pulls the ... found at the centers of their galaxies, but this roaming void in space was the first observed offset from its galaxy, ...

Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a black hole in the act of devouring a star, ripping it apart ... in the very center of a galaxy, this one was a wandering rogue.

“In fact, this wind is moving so fast that it will end up escaping the galaxy altogether, lost to the void ... the central black hole, accelerating even more on their journey to the galactic outskirts ...

Resembling a circular void surrounded by a lopsided ... member of the neighboring Virgo galaxy cluster, is the home of several trillion stars, a supermassive black hole, and a family of roughly ...

Estimated to be 2.6 billion times the mass of the Sun, this monstrous void has ... colossal galaxy contains over 100 billion stars, yet at its centre lurks an entity that defies comprehension. Dubbed ...

A black hole might conjure images of a dark, quiet void — but astronomers ... discovered a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.