#black holes
Astronomers on Maunakea capture starlight images from 2 massive galaxies hosting growing black holes
An international team of scientists, including staff astronomer Chien-Hsiu Lee at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, has captured first time images of starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes from less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Scientists find 2 giant black holes ‘dining together’ using Maunakea observatory data
The study about the black holes is published in the Jan. 9, 2023 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters and presented in a press conference at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Wash.
Spinning Black Hole Sprays Light-Speed Plasma Clouds Into Space
An international team of astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole within our own Galaxy the Milky Way.
Birth of Black Hole Captured for First Time
Hawai‘i telescopes help astronomers identify mysterious glowing ‘cow’ in the sky.
ASTRONOMY TALK: Shining Light on Gravity
Keck Observatory is hosting an Astronomy Talk entitled, “Shining Light On Gravity: Sometimes All That Shimmers IS Gold” on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.
Astronomy Talk Video: ‘The Monster at the Heart of Our Galaxy’
Discover this year’s exciting new developments in unraveling the mysteries of supermassive black holes in this video of a talk entitled “The Monster at the Heart of Our Galaxy.”
