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Scientists witness a dormant supermassive black hole roar to life
Reuters via Yahoo News· 20 minutes agoAt the center of the Milky Way galaxy resides a supermassive black hole four million times the mass...
Supermassive Black Hole Seen Waking Up In Real Time In World First
IFLScience· 3 hours agoAstronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole turning itself on. The object sits at the...
Black hole awakening observed for first time
Newsweek· 2 hours agoA gargantuan supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy has been spotted coming back to life. An unsuspecting galaxy named ...
Black holes formed quasars less than a billion years after Big Bang
Ars Technica· 17 hours agoThe seeming impossibility of supermassive black holes in the early Universe was already a bit of a...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 hours agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin thanks to the object’s chance meeting ...
Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
SPACE.com· 5 days agoAstronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of...
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...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn the left, in blue, is an X-ray image of an accreting supermassive black hole (shown inset as...
Quasar from early universe upends theory about SMBH formation
Interesting Engineering· 11 hours agoA quasar, among the brightest objects in the universe, is powered by an actively feeding supermassive black hole (SMBH), typically found ...