Dark matter is estimated to comprise 90% to 95% of the Milky Way's mass. That means, if dark matter is made of primordial black holes, our galaxy should contain many of these ancient bodies. Black holes don't emit light because they are bound by a light-trapping surface called an "ev...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y.Bai. et al.) When the monster back hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy belched out an exceptionally high number of powerful X-ray flares last year...
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the centre of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarized light.European Southern Observatory via Reuters "What w...
The gravitational wave detectors have shown a population of massive black holes that do not resemble those observed in the Milky Way1,2,3 and whose origin is debated4,5,6. According to a possible explanation, these black holes may have formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe (...
There'sa dragon dozing in the Milky Way's core. Hidden from sight by our galaxy's dusty disk, a supermassive black hole sleeps fitfully. Sometimes a cloud of gas might whisk around its nostrils or a star fall on its head and make the dragon snort a bit of flame, thenC Carlisle...
The first image of the behemoth at the center of our galaxy opens new avenues for understanding the nature of black holes
Milky way black hole image: Is this the first black hole image? The recently released image of black hole in our milky way is not the first image of black hole. The first one was released in 2019 by the same group and it was from a galaxy 53 million li...
Astronomers have spotted a rare "'missing link"' black hole, and it's lurking right in the center of our galaxy. The IRS 13 star cluster has long been a puzzle for astronomers. Located just a tenth of a light-year from the heart of our Milky Way galaxy where the Sagittar...
Milky Way n. 1.The galaxy containing the sun, solar system, and all of the individually visible stars in the night sky, along with various nebulae, star clusters, and dust clouds, thought to have a super-massive black hole at its center of mass. ...
The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, at a wavelength of 1.3mm. (Image credit: EHT Collaboration) The intention now is to apply this breakthrough while taking new images of Sagittarius A* and the supermassive black hole in M87. "The time is righ...