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Supermassive black hole, Earth

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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

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Feeding supermassive black holes are more common than thought across the universe

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole."

Powerful Beam From Ancient Black Hole 12.9 Billion Light-Years Away Targets Earth

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

James Webb Space Telescope, black hole and little red dots

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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'

The James Webb Space Telescope's ancient "little red dot" galaxies have been seen as a sign of "broken cosmology." Feeding supermassive black holes may have come to the rescue.

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Webb telescope just solved the 'universe-breaking problem'

The James Webb Space Telescope might not have broken our understanding of the universe, after all. Previously, astronomers used Webb to spot curious, faint, and extremely ancient red dots that they surmised were giant galaxies.

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Scientists Studying Webb's 'Little Red Dots' Find New Population of Black Holes

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs). A new study has compiled and analyzed the largest-ever sample of LRDs, and it noted several striking properties,

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Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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Newfound galaxy class may indicate early black hole growth

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...

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Strange Flashes Could Be Signs of Closest Object Seen Near a Black Hole

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

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Astronomers investigate black hole jets with Event Horizon Telescope

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

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First-ever detection of a mid-infrared flare in Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive massive black hole

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d

Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

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