Last year, the astronomical community received a surprising surprise. For the first time, the world collectively looked at the real image of the shadow of a black hole. It was the culmination of years of work, a glorious achievement in both human collaboration and technological ingenuity. And, like the best …
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A faint, ghostly galaxy 10 million light-years away has delivered one of black hole astronomy’s holy grails. At the bottom is a black hole that appears to belong to an elusive middleweight class of intermediate-mass black holes, a discovery that could help us understand how some of the more massive …
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Across the Universe, there are numerous examples of galaxies coming together in colossal mergers, a billion-year-old process that stains stars and gas in the surrounding space. For the most part, we know how this unfolds, but we don’t know what happens to supermassive black holes within their galactic centers. Astronomers …
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