Supermassive black holes typically rotate with the galactic plane, expelling X-rays perpendicular to the plane itself. However, NASA recently discovered that galaxy NGC 5084—located 80 million ...
What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...
A glowing galaxy not far from the Milky Way has been harboring a strange, puzzling secret at its core. In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole ...
What makes NGC 5084 even more intriguing is a small, tilted disk of dust spinning around its centre at a 90-degree angle to the galaxy’s overall rotation ...
NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in galaxy NGC 5084, located about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and ...
That galaxy, called NGC 5084, has been known for years, but the sideways secret of its central black hole lay hidden in old data archives. The discovery was made possible by new image analysis ...
The sideways black hole was discovered in the galaxy NGC 5084, a lenticular (lens-shaped) galaxy located around 80 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Virgo. The black hole ...
The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084. Researchers have been aware of the galaxy for years, NASA said in a news release. New analysis techniques developed at NASA's Ames Research ...