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This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...

Scientists have found a massive black hole that is "napping" after stuffing itself with too much food in perhaps what is the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

Years of data analysis and new imaging techniques revealed an unusual phenomenon in NGC 5084: a supermassive black hole with four plasma plumes forming an "X" shape, rotating at a 90-degree angle.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084 ... who will also publish a paper about the discovery, in the news release. "Putting all the pictures together revealed that NGC 5084 has ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.