supermassive black hole
Most quasars are a ferocious force of nature, but not this one
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A composite image of the quasar H1821+643, with X-ray data from Chandra in blue and radio wavelength data from the Very Large ...
Supermassive black hole’s mysterious hiccups’ likely caused by neighboring black hole’s ‘punches’
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A hiccuping supermassive black hole has alerted astronomers to a whole new type of black hole behavior. In 2020, a previously quiet ...
New image reveals spiraling magnetic field around Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
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A striking new image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has revealed the strong magnetic field that ...
James Webb Space Telescope finds ‘extremely red’ supermassive black hole growing in the early universe
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered an “extremely red” supermassive black hole growing in the shadowy, early universe. ...
Did monster black holes or galaxies come first? The James Webb Space Telescope may have a surprise answer
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“What came first, the galaxy or its monster black hole?” Technically, it’s an even more ancient riddle than the one about the ...
Gory simulation reconstructs violent clash as a monster black hole spaghettifies star from start to finish
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Scientists have used a sophisticated simulation to reconstruct the brutal death of a star that wandered too close to a supermassive black ...
Spacetime ripples detected in 2023 continue to puzzle astronomers. Could they be from the dawn of the universe?
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Scientists are still hunting for the source of the faint, persistent hum of gravitational waves discovered reverberating through the Milky Way last ...
13 record-breaking space discoveries of 2023
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1. The most powerful light from the sun Among the new astronomical records set in 2023 was an announcement of the highest-energy ...
Can stars form around black holes?
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In the 1930s, when physicist and engineer Karl Jansky pointed his radio antenna towards the center of our galaxy, he detected a ...
Humans could use black holes as batteries, physics paper claims. Here’s how.
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An artist’s concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE) that happens when a star passes fatally close to a supermassive black hole, ...
