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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

How does a black hole get to the center of a galaxy, and does the galaxy revolve around it?

Exotic Objects, Science

Could you travel through a black hole? This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

This image shows the star-studded center of the Milky Way towards the constellation of Sagittarius. The most famous cosmic object in this image still remains invisible: the monster at our galaxy’s heart called Sagittarius A*. Astronomers have observed stars spinning around this supermassive black hole (located right in the center of the image), and the black hole consuming clouds of dust as it affects its environment with its enormous gravitational pull. Credit: NASA

Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Milky Way, Science

How Sagittarius A* was found lurking in the center of the Milky Way

Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Science

Scientists discover 12 star-gobbling black holes shining in infrared light

In this artist's conception, a black hole (center) is contained in a small host galaxy in the distant universe (left). In the nearby universe (right), the same sized black hole would be hosted in a much bigger galaxy. Credit: CfA/Melissa Weiss

Exotic Objects, Science

JWST turns up even more heavier-than-expected black holes

An illustration of a supermassive black hole and its accretion disk. Credit: NASA/Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.)

Exotic Objects, Galaxies, Science

JWST finds oldest black hole ever seen, and it’s hungry

A multi-wavelength photograph of of the galactic center, containing the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), and the young, target star cluster, IRS13. The image also shows foreground and background objects.

Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Science

Astronomers study an unlikely stellar fountain of youth

What happens at the center of a black hole?

An artist’s representation of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space, an LFBOT. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT). Credit: NASA, ESA, NSF's NOIRLab, Mark Garlick , Mahdi Zamani

Exotic Objects, Science

‘Tasmanian devil’ rises from slumber with brilliant bursts of light

A visual representation of the tilted accretion disk model, the black hole's vertical spin axis, and the precessional jet directions.

Exotic Objects, Science

Study reveals M87 has a spinning black hole

It may not look like much, but capturing photons from the distant quasar 3C 273 is one of the most awe-inspiring observations you can make with a small telescope.

Deep-Sky Objects

Target acquired: Observe Quasar 3C 273

This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe.

What we’ve learned in 60 years of studying quasars