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Black holes—those mysterious, invisible giants—have long fascinated astronomers and captivated the public’s imagination. Often portrayed as cosmic devourers, these celestial...
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The universe has always fascinated humanity with its enigmatic beauty and the secrets it holds about our origins. Recently, the...
![A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. These novae are not caught inside the jet, but are apparently in a dangerous neighbourhood nearby. During a recent 9-month survey, astronomers using Hubble found twice as many of these novae going off near the jet as elsewhere in the galaxy. The galaxy is the home of several trillion stars and thousands of star-like globular star clusters. [Image description: A Hubble photo of galaxy M87, which resembles a translucent, fuzzy white cotton ball. The brightness decreases gradually out in all directions from a bright white point of light at the centre. A wavy blue-white jet of material extends from the point-like core outward to the upper right, about halfway across the galaxy. Stars speckle the background.]](https://i0.wp.com/nasaspacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Hubble_s_view_of_M87_galaxy-2000x1200-1.jpg?resize=350%2C250&ssl=1)
In April 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration captured the world’s attention with the first-ever image of a black...
Black holes are often thought of as cosmic anchors, spinning in perfect alignment with their host galaxies. However, astronomers have...
Astronomy never ceases to amaze us. The recent discovery of D9, a binary star system orbiting the supermassive black hole...
