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Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time
Science News· 4 days agoA galaxy transitioned from being dim and quiet to bright and active, giving astronomers insight into...
Cosmic Winds at Warp Speed: How Black Holes Propel Galaxy Evolution
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoblack holes can continuously shape their galaxies by spurring on or snuffing out the development of...
Space Winds Unleashed: First Map of Outflows From Nearby Quasar I Zwicky 1
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoI Zwicky 1. Quasars are bright cores of galaxies powered by the supermassive black hole in their...
Black hole observed 'awakening' for the first time
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAstronomers have been able to observe a supermassive black hole waking up and setting the heart of its host galaxy alight for the first ...
A distant black hole reawakens, and astronomers watch it happen
Astronomy Magazine· 2 days agoAt the center of an average joe galaxy 300 million light-years away, something has just happened...
Black hole awakening observed for first time
Newsweek· 5 days agoA gargantuan supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy has been spotted coming back to life. An unsuspecting galaxy named ...
At the heart of this distant galaxy lies not 1, but 2 jet-blasting black holes
SPACE.com· 6 days agoA quasar is the extremely active core of a distant galaxy. This activity is the product of a ...
A black hole 1 million times our Sun awakened — and astronomers caught the whole thing in real time
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days ago/M. Kornmesser We typically think of black holes as monstrous entities that destroy everything. But...
Echoes of Ancient Flares: The “Quiet Monster” of the Milky Way Revealed
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoScientists studied the past activity of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole in our galaxy,...
Astronomers discover the 1st-ever merging galaxy cores at cosmic dawn
LiveScience· 3 days agoAstronomers have spotted two active black holes merging at their farthest distance ever — just 900...