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How 2 quasars at the dawn of time could be a Rosetta stone for the early universe
SPACE.com· 45 minutes agoQuasars are rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the cores of hyperactive galaxies. Torrents...
Supermassive Black Hole Seen Waking Up In Real Time In World First
IFLScience· 4 hours agoAstronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole turning itself on. The object sits at the...
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...
Black hole observed 'awakening' for the first time
AFP via Yahoo News· 46 minutes 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· 1 day agoThis activity is the product of a supermassive black hole hungrily consuming matter, so much matter,...
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...
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 ...
Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time
IFLScience· 4 days agoAt the heart of the galaxy OJ 287 is a supermassive black hole, like almost every other galaxy, but...
Real-Time Revelation: Witnessing a Massive Black Hole’s Dramatic Awakening
SciTechDaily· 3 hours agoAstronomers believe the 2019 brightening of galaxy SDSS1335+0728 may be the first real-time...
NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope captures closest super star cluster to Earth (image)
SPACE.com· 5 days agoNASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has imaged a star cluster that is "super" in every way. Westerlund 1...