It's through this process that astronomers first identified black holes with the famous case of Cygnus X-1, one of the brightest sources of X-rays in our sky. In the midst of this feeding frenzy ...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...
XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years away. This material gradually moved inwards to a distance of around 0.001 ...
The first results from JAXA's XRISM X-ray telescope are out, and they reveal new features of the superheated gas around a ...
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer has observed renowned Galactic X-ray binary Cygnus X-3 ... A heavyweight black hole, embedded within quasar SMSS J052915.80−435152.0 at a redshift of ...
It was not until the advent of X-ray astronomy that the first black hole was discovered. Discovered in the 1960s, Cygnus X-1 was the first black hole identified and has a mass ten times that of the ...
Named G3425, it might have a lot to teach us about tiny black holes according to an analysis. "The rare discovery of G3425 ...
The disk would be so hot, it should radiate a copious amount of X-rays ... the black hole. As half of the matter from the now-shredded star gets slurped towards the black hole, only 1% of it ...