Astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
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'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to life
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Small satellite constellation could reveal black holes like never before
Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...
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 ...
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How we might finally find black holes from the cosmic dawn
After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.