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Explained: What are supermassive black holes, the one which was photographed at the centre of The Milky Way
Astronomers have captured the image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way for the first time. Sagittarius A* is actually a supermassive black hole. We take a look at what exactly is a supermassive black hole.
NASA releases eerie audio recording from black hole, listen to it here
The space agency stated that it was a popular misconception that 'there is no sound in space' because most of space is a vacuum, which leaves no medium for sound waves to travel
Stephen Hawking death anniversary: Here are some of his groundbreaking theories
Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time, was an international bestseller and remains influential since it was first published in the 1980s
NASA's James Webb telescope unfolds its giant mirror, passes final pre-launch test
Scientists from 44 countries will use the telescope to look at alien worlds and penetrate supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies.
Swarm of smaller black holes found in NGC 6397 where lone, massive one was thought to exist
The discovery opens up the possibility of black hole mergers in globular clusters – a potential source of gravitational waves.
First black hole spotted in 1964 is much more massive than researchers expected
The Cygnus X-1 black hole may be the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found, at 21 times our sun's mass.
'Recoiling' black hole in a nearby star cluster keeps slipping detection, baffling scientists
Recoiling black holes, like the one in question, are hypothetical objects that are yet to be definitively spotted.
Black holes do not move around sucking in objects like a vacuum cleaners, say scientist
He said if the Sun became a black hole, it wouldn't suck other planets; the Earth would still revolve around it, except there wouldn't light and the planet would be very cold.
Penrose's Nobel for Physics comes two decades too late, a delayed recognition of important theoretical work
It took the Nobel Committee five decades to recognize the work of Indian-origin astrophysicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.
Nobel-winning black hole physics by Penrose, Hawking stands on work of Indian physicist Amal Raychaudhuri
The Raychaudhuri Equation continues to be a key tool in investigating the behaviour of black hole horizons in modern physics.
Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics awarded to Penrose, Genzel and Ghez for findings in cosmology, black holes
Half the award was shared between two researchers that helped discover that every galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole.
Black holes that 'shouldn’t exist' discovered in the loudest black hole collision on record
A black hole 85 times the sun's mass, and a second, 66 solar masses, collided. The result was a black hole 142 times as massive as the sun.
Hubble peers deep into the universe, finds 'missing link' evidence of mid-sized black hole
Black holes are extreme environments and are a testing ground for the laws of physics and our understanding of how the Universe works.
Einstein and Hawking: Master of our Universe makes greatest scientific breakthroughs accessible, exciting
Einstein and Hawking: Master of our Universe, a two-part BBC docu-series, documents their contributions to science.
Space and Astronomy in 2019: Unforgettable findings and events in space exploration, the universe
We saw the first black hole photo, many moon landings, the most distant asteroid ever imaged beyond Pluto among other spectacular wonders.
Two merging galaxy groups put on a spectacular display for Chandra telescope
The groups are located about 380 million light-years from Earth and will form a cluster after the merger.
Pac-Man-like behaviour could explain how massive, spinning black holes merge
Researchers are hoping to find signs of large, spinning black holes that can help in the hunt for gravitational waves.
Stars can explode because of mysterious supersonic waves, a new study finds
During the star's explosion, it releases the same amount of energy it would release over its entire lifetime.
Three black holes on a collision course imaged by multiple telescopes in a first
The observation is 'the best evidence yet' of a trio of supermassive black holes in apparently merging galaxies.
Scientists confirm that black holes are hairless and ring like a bell, gravitationally speaking, when they're born
Scientists have found gravitational wave signals peaking in a sharp curve before fading away, like a bird's 'chirp'.