Astronomers have found potentially the largest black hole yet discovered. The black hole weighs around 30 billion times more than the sun and is located hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth, in the center of a galaxy.
For two decades, scientists have been studying X7, an elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, in an effort to determine its origins. They have wondered if it was pulled off a larger structure nearby, if its shape was caused by stellar winds or if it was shaped…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is providing unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths to researchers who are getting their first look at nearby galaxies’ star formation, gas, and dust. As a result, the team has produced 21 research papers that give new insights into how the beginnings of star formation impact the evolution of galaxies.