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Hubble Telescope maps high-speed 'burps' from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHubble has mapped the outflow "burps" of a nearby feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar for...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Space via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoOn the left, in blue, is an X-ray image of an accreting supermassive black hole (shown inset as...
Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time
IFLScience· 24 hours agoAt the heart of the galaxy OJ 287 is a supermassive black hole, like almost every other galaxy, but...
NASA telescope spots 'cosmic fireworks' and faint echos from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
SPACE.com· 2 days agoAstronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of...
How are galaxies destroyed?
SPACE.com· 3 hours agoAt the heart of almost every galaxy sits a supermassive black hole. In the case of the Milky Way, we have Sagittarius A*, a beast weighing ...
Supermassive black hole's "wind" shapes surrounding galaxy
Newsweek· 3 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 ...
Ancient “Monster” Black Holes Revealed: MIT Astronomers Capture Elusive Starlight From Early Quasars
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoMIT astronomers have observed the faint starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the...
Wind from black holes may influence development of | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoClouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster — at more than 10,000 miles per...
'Supercharged rhino' black holes may have formed and died a second after the Big Bang
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoTiny 'supercharged' black holes born just after the Big Bang may have been brief companions to...
Mass. pols call on NASA to back off on funding cuts to Chandra X-Ray Observatory
The Republican· 3 days agoA coalition of Bay State lawmakers on Capitol Hill has called on NASA to back off on its plan to cut...