“An enormous black hole keeps slipping through astronomers’ nets…” reports Space.com: The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261, which lies about 2.7 billion light-years from Earth, should have an even larger central black hole — a light-gobbling monster that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns, astronomers estimate from the galaxy’s mass. But the…
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A giant black hole keeps evading detection and scientists can’t explain it
The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261 should harbor a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns. But astronomers can’t find it. Source: https://www.livescience.com/abell-2261-supermassive-black-hole-missing.html
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole is closer to Earth than we thought
The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought. Source: https://www.livescience.com/milky-way-black-hole-closer-to-earth.html
On the hunt for a missing giant black hole
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-giant-black-hole.html…
The Milky Way’s black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles
Astronomers have found a pair of enormous bubbles of X-rays, above and below the Milky Way, which were probably created by our galaxy’s supermassive black hole Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262113-the-milky-ways-black-hole-burped-out-two-colossal-x-ray-bubbles/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Earth faster, closer to Milky Way black hole, than previously thought
A new survey of our galaxy by astronomers with VERA in Japan has shown that Earth is both moving faster and is closer to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy than previously thought. But don’t worry, our planet is safe! Source: https://earthsky.org/space/earth-faster-closer-to-milky-way-central-black-hole…
Researchers Calculate Earth is 2,000 Light-years Closer to the Milky Way’s Black Hole
“Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy,” reports Phys.org: But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that our planet is plunging towards the black hole. Instead the changes are results of a better model of the Milky Way Galaxy based on new observation data, including…
Earth faster, closer to black hole in new map of galaxy
Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that our planet is plunging towards the black hole. Instead the changes are results of a better model of the Milky Way Galaxy based on new observation data, including a catalog…
Feeding a galaxy’s nuclear black hole
A galactic bar is the approximately linear structure of stars and gas that stretches across the inner regions of some galaxies. The bar stretches from one inner spiral arm, across the nuclear region, to an arm on the other side. Found in about half of spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way, bars are thought to funnel large amounts of gas into…
The Milky Way’s quiet, introverted monster won’t spin
This supermassive black hole’s spin has been measured for the first time, and it’s surprisingly low. Source: https://www.livescience.com/supermassive-black-hole-barely-spinning.html