Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars
WEBApr 6, 2023 · This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It's likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes.
Hubble Finds Mysterious Disk of Blue Stars Around Black Hole - Science@NASA
WEBSep 20, 2005 · Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a super-massive black hole in our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). The strange light has puzzled astronomers for …
Hubble photographs stellar trail of runaway black hole
WEBApr 6, 2023 · This archival image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a curious linear feature that is so unusual it was first dismissed as an imaging artifact from Hubble’s cameras. But follow-up spectroscopic observations reveal it is a 200 000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars.
Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars
WEBApr 6, 2023 · This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. It's likely the result of a rare, bizarre game of galactic billiards among three massive black holes.
Cosmic Monster on the Loose: Runaway Supermassive Black Hole …
WEBApr 7, 2023 · A rare and bizarre cosmic event involving three massive black holes has led to the discovery of an unprecedented phenomenon: a supermassive black hole moving at incredible speeds, leaving a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars in its wake.
Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole
WEBSep 20, 2005 · Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the light has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade, the new discovery makes the story even more mysterious.
Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web | Nature
WEB1 day ago · For the past 50 years, the known size range of black hole jet pairs ended at 4.6–5.0 Mpc (refs. 7, 8, 9), or 20–30% of a cosmic void radius in the Local Universe 10. An observational lack of ...
APOD: 2021 April 16 - The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
WEBBecause we're seeing red's view of blue while also seeing blue directly, the images allow us to see both sides of blue at the same time. Red and blue light originating from both black holes can be seen in the innermost ring of …
Our neighboring galaxy's unusual core - ESA/Hubble
WEBThe images and illustration reveal that the Andromeda Galaxy's (M31's) core is composed of a ring of old, red stars and a newly discovered disk of young, blue stars. The disk is trapped within a supermassive black hole's gravitational field.
Different Flavors of Black Holes - NASA
WEBJan 9, 2014 · The color blue shows black holes recently detected by NuSTAR, which was uniquely designed to detect the highest-energy X-ray light. The black holes in this picture are between about 3 to 10 billion light-years away. Why do some black holes produce more high-energy X-ray light than others?
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