supermassive black holes
See this galaxy’s bright center? It’s home to a voracious supermassive black hole
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Step aside, Shark Week. NASA’s Black Hole Week is our favorite celebration of really cool (and sometimes terrifying) things. This year, it’s ...
Why are some supermassive black hole jets so short? Astronomers may have cracked the case
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A new investigation into a rare and short-lived type of galaxy has revealed that such objects harbor slumbering supermassive black holes that ...
New image reveals “twisted” magnetic fields around our black hole
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Astronomers have discovered powerful “twisted” magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way, the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope’s targets over the next year include black holes, exomoons, dark energy — and more
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The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced which astronomy proposals have been selected to be given time with the James Webb Space ...
X-ray image of universe reveals almost 1 million high-energy objects: ‘These are mind-blowing numbers’
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The first data released to the public from the eROSITA sky survey comprises an X-ray view of half the sky over Earth, ...
Millions of stars glow in Webb telescope’s unprecedented spiral galaxies portrait
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The James Webb ...
12 of the most exciting black hole developments from 2023
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Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Yet scientists can learn plenty about black holes by examining ...
This supermassive black hole is the most distant ever seen in X-rays
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Shown is the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, with the distant galaxy UHZ1 that formed just 470 million years after the Big Bang. ...
Telescopes spot the oldest and most distant black hole formed after the big bang
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