Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.
A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...
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Astronomers unveiled a look at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own ...
An international scientific team, led by a researcher from the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) and the ...
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...
Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky ...
Recent findings by the EHT collaboration reveal strong, organized magnetic fields around Sagittarius A*, suggesting common ...
and I recommend that anyone who was excited about the first images of Sgr. A* check it out for more information on just how the spin of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is literally ...
An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy – a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.
Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved?