& Black Holes

Black holes with masses 10,000x of Sun may form in ‘birthing nests’

Black holes with masses 10,000x of Sun may form in ‘birthing nests’

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Scientists have discovered that rarely found intermediate-mass black holes may have formed in dense star clusters. Known as “globular clusters”, these bodies ...

Milky Way black hole Sagittarius A*’s magnetic field pictured for first time

Milky Way black hole Sagittarius A*’s magnetic field pictured for first time

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

If a jet is discovered, it could further bolster the theory that all black holes work in the same way and they ...

NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole

NASA’s Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This image shows a quasar, a rapidly growing supermassive black hole, which is not achieving what astronomers would expect from it, as reported in ...

Oldest black hole ever seen challenges what we know about their formation

Oldest black hole ever seen challenges what we know about their formation

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

The oldest black hole ever seen has been detected by Cambridge University astronomers using Nasa’s James Webb telescope. It was created in ...

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, ...