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 ...

After spotting some signs from the Chandra X-ray telescope, NASA scientists have found a black hole that was sideways. The [… ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy NGC 5084’s core. A dark, vertical line near the center shows the curve of a dusty disk orbiting the core, whose presence suggests a supermassive black hole ...

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 ...

What makes the discovery even more surprising is the orientation of the black hole and its dusty disk. Shweta Singh Updated : ...