By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science Astronomers from Keio University, Japan, have observed what looks like the largest intermediate-mass black hole within the Milky Way. The object is estimated to weigh 100,000 times the mass of the Sun and is located near the center of the galaxy. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, focused on a large molecular…
Astronomers Observe Two Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other For The First Time
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFLScience In a groundbreaking series of observations, astronomers have used radio waves to observe two supermassive black holes orbiting around each other. This discovery, combined with the observations of gravitational waves from LIGO, are opening up a completely new avenue in black hole studies. The team used the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to study galaxy…