Supermassive Black Holes

Black holes aren't always born from imploding stars, a radical new study proposes

So far, massive, star-sized black holes were thought to form only from collapsed stars.

Processing black hole images is like listening to a broken piano, says scientist Katie Bouman

The tech used to process the image also finds uses in medical imaging, seismic prediction & self-driving cars.

First ever black hole event horizon photo an extraordinary feat: Indian scientists

The image gives the first independent estimate for the mass of the giant black hole in the M87 galaxy.

Artificial intelligence bot trained by researchers to spot black holes and radio galaxies

This means more time for scientists to spend looking at new types of galaxies: Researcher.

Reseachers train AI bot to identify galaxies in deep space through image scans

The AI bot named "ClaRAN" spots radio galaxies that emit radio jets from supermassive black holes.

Study by TIFR researchers confirms that supermassive black holes can form gravitationally bound pairs

The detection confirms a theory predicting the presence of a compact binary in a radio galaxies bearing a "Z" shape.

University of Utah have found two dwarf galaxies with supermassive black holes

The findings suggest that dwarfs may be remnants of massive galaxies that were ripped apart by larger galaxies.