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This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

Scientists have found a massive black hole that is "napping" after stuffing itself with too much food in perhaps what is the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084 ... who will also publish a paper about the discovery, in the news release. "Putting all the pictures together revealed that NGC 5084 has ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

This means the consequences of the new discovery are likely to become a building block of any future model of black-hole growth in the early universe: they imply the existence of an abundance of ...

Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...