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Echoes of Ancient Flares: The “Quiet Monster” of the Milky Way Revealed
SciTechDaily· 1 hour 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· 13 hours 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· 13 hours agoScientists for years thought the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 was about as remarkable as its serial code...
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
SPACE.com· 5 days agoWhile supermassive black holes with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun are thought...
How 2 quasars at the dawn of time could be a Rosetta stone for the early universe
SPACE.com· 10 hours agoQuasars are rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the cores of hyperactive galaxies. Torrents...
“Flares” and “Echoes” – Unveiling the Monster Black Hole at Our Galaxy’s Core
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoMichigan State University researchers have made important discoveries about the supermassive black...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe light echoing from the Bridge took hundreds of years to travel to it from Sgr...X-ray echo, Uteg...
Black hole observed 'awakening' for the first time
AFP via Yahoo News· 10 hours 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,...
Supermassive black hole's "wind" shapes surrounding galaxy
Newsweek· 6 days agoAccelerating "wind" from black holes may help shape the galaxies surrounding them, a new study suggests. A team of astronomers, including from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University ...