Often found around a star or black hole, we find out what an accretion disc is
Deep Space
Deep Space
Deep Space
Astronomers baffled by a radio ‘echo’ detected from distant galaxy
13 days after an X-ray emission was detected from a distant galaxy, an almost identical radio signal was detected
News
Space telescope maps star’s ‘death spiral’ into a black hole
Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the Sun wandered too close to the central black hole of its galaxy
News
Astronomers discover massive black hole choking on stardust
Data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft, amongst other telescopes, suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts
News
Starving black hole causes galaxy to dim
The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved
News
Gravitational vortex discovered around black hole
“It is a bit like twisting a spoon in honey”
News
Exceptionally bright black hole with manners questions theory
It eats amazingly tidily and it’s way too luminous for its mass. That’s two things about the Pinwheel Galaxy’s black hole ULX-1 that could change our understanding of these high gravity objects.