Our Galaxys Monster Black Hole Is Spinning Almost as Fast as . . . The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate That's just one thing astrophysicists have discovered after developing and applying a new method to tease apart the secrets still hidden in supermassive black hole observations collected by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
Black in galaxy astrophysics - Nature Astronomy As part of Black Space Week 2025, six extragalactic astronomers share information about their scientific interests, research projects and personal motivations for working in astronomy
Black holes may obey the laws of physics after all, new . . . A team of scientists has developed a recipe for black holes that eliminates one of the most troubling aspects of physics: the central singularity, the point at which all our theories, laws and
The Role of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Formation The Event Horizon Telescope’s 2019 image of the black hole in M87 and upcoming observations of Sgr A* are helping to refine our understanding of black hole physics, spacetime, and their broader role in the universe The Mysterious Role of Dark Matter and Black Holes Dark Matter Halos and Galaxy Formation
Powerful Magnetic Fields Spin Around Our Galaxy’s . . . The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of our Milky Way black hole released in 2022, has captured a new view of the massive object at the center of our Galaxy: how it looks in polarised light This is the first time astronomers have been able to measure
Study finds our galaxy’s black hole is altering space-time . . . Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is spinning so rapidly that it is altering the fabric of space-time around it