(CNN) — A record-breaking explosion created by a black hole 390 million light-years away has been discovered by astronomers. “In some ways, this blast is similar to how the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 ripped off the top of the mountain,” said lead author Simona Giacintucci, director of research at the Naval Research […]
Much like stars and planets, black holes also fall into different categories. Astronomers have now spotted a record-breaking heavyweight black hole at the center of a galaxy known as Holm 15A. The black hole weighs 40 billion times the mass of our sun. Holm 15A is a central elliptical galaxy within the Abell 85 cluster, […]
Scientists have unveiled humanity’s first-ever photo of a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope, a network of eight radio observatories spanning the globe, captured a massive black hole “53.5 million light-years away in galaxy Messier 87,” researchers with the National Science Foundation announced Wednesday. “We have seen what we thought was unseeable,” EHT assistant director […]
