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Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
SPACE.com· 6 days agoWhile supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun are thought...
Echoes of Ancient Flares: The “Quiet Monster” of the Milky Way Revealed
SciTechDaily· 17 hours agoScientists studied the past activity of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole in our galaxy,...
Supermassive Black Hole Seen Waking Up In Real Time In World First
IFLScience· 1 day agoAstronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole turning itself on. The object sits at the...
Astronomers just witnessed a whole galaxy 'turn on the lights' in real-time
Mashable· 1 day agoScientists for years thought the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 was about as remarkable as its serial code...
How 2 quasars at the dawn of time could be a Rosetta stone for the early universe
SPACE.com· 1 day agoQuasars are rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the cores of hyperactive galaxies. Torrents...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe light echoing from the Bridge took hundreds of years to travel to it from Sgr...X-ray echo, Uteg...
“Flares” and “Echoes” – Unveiling the Monster Black Hole at Our Galaxy’s Core
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoMichigan State University researchers have made important discoveries about the supermassive black...
Black hole observed 'awakening' for the first time
AFP via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAstronomers have been able to observe a supermassive black hole waking up and setting the heart of its host galaxy alight for the first time, the...
At the heart of this distant galaxy lies not 1, but 2 jet-blasting black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis activity is the product of a supermassive black hole hungrily consuming matter, so much matter,...
A Monster Black Hole 1M Times Bigger Than The Sun Just Woke Up And It’s Hungry
HotHardware· 2 hours agoAstronomers using data from several space and ground-based observatories have theorized that a once...