A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...

A surprising new study suggests the intense radiation from active galactic nuclei from a black hole might support life ...

Earth, in real life, is not close enough to its resident black hole, Sagittarius A, to feel its effects, even in AGN-mode. But the researchers wanted to see what could happen if Earth were much ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

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For life to thrive, it most likely needs a planet with a habitable ecosystem, and clouds of hot gas saturated with X-rays don't contain such planets. So, astronomers can instead look for galaxies ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Earth, in real life, is not close enough to its resident black hole, Sagittarius A, to feel its effects, even in AGN-mode. But the researchers wanted to see what could happen if Earth were much ...

It could point out environments with the right kind of black holes to produce the greatest number of planets without spraying them with X-rays. Life in such environments could emerge to its full ...