Tag: dwarf galaxy
A rare type of black hole discovered near our Galaxy
The most beautiful discoveries are sometimes made… right next to home. For this time, in the Andromeda galaxy, the spiral galaxy closest to ours. Astronomers have just found an intermediate-sized…
A Rarely Observed Type of Black Hole Found in a Galaxy Near Us
The most beautiful discoveries are sometimes made… right next to home. For this time, in the Andromeda galaxy, the spiral galaxy closest to ours. Astronomers have just found an intermediate-sized…
Surprise! A giant black hole makes stars
Black holes are often perceived as cosmic ogres, destroyers of stars. And yet, observations carried out thanks to the high resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope show that sometimes they…
A “monstrous” mini-black hole unearthed in a dwarf galaxy
A team of astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole of a few hundred thousand solar masses in a dwarf galaxy, Mrk 462. The discovery of this “small” black hole…
Giant mini black hole discovered in dwarf galaxy
A team of astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole of a few hundred thousand solar masses in a dwarf galaxy, Mrk 462. The discovery of this “small” black hole…
Milky Way: Gaia would have revealed fossil spiral arms!
Astronomers continue to analyze data collected by the Gaia astrometric mission concerning nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way. They revealed curious structures that could be the fossil remains…
Supermassive black hole is believed to be hiding in dwarf galaxy near Milky Way
This is unheard of and questions the growth models of galaxies and supermassive black holes. The dwarf galaxy Leo I orbiting the Milky Way would contain at its center a…
There would be a supermassive black hole in a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way
This is unheard of and questions the growth models of galaxies and supermassive black holes. The dwarf galaxy Leo I orbiting the Milky Way would contain at its center a…