What makes Centaurus A so special is the supermassive black hole at its heart which shoots radiation and matter 40,000 light-years across the entire width of the galaxy. Using the deepest X-ray ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

powered by a supermassive black hole that is actively accreting matter, which in turn reheats the gas, preventing it from cooling too rapidly. However, in the case of the Centaurus cluster ...

Centaurus A: The image presents an elliptical galaxy encircled by a dark dust lane, observed through a ground-based telescope ...

The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 or simply M31, is captured in this image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) In this image from NASA’s James Webb Space ...

The image shows the galaxy NGC 4438, where a supermassive black hole is releasing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. The image captures an elliptical galaxy surrounded by a dark dust lane, seen ...

Gas can condense into filaments as a result of this cooling, and these filaments then return to the black hole to replenish it. Two galaxy clusters—the Centaurus and Perseus clusters—offered ...

The study examined seven galaxy clusters, where massive black holes—some billions of times the Sun’s mass—sit at their centers. Perseus and Centaurus stand out, showcasing striking images of ...

The Perseus and Centaurus Clusters showed clear signs of cold gas filaments condensing and flowing back into the black hole’s gravitational pull. Some of the cooled gas avoids the black hole and ...