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How are galaxies destroyed?
SPACE.com· 31 minutes 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 ...
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
Space via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoOn the left, in blue, is an X-ray image of an accreting supermassive black hole (shown inset as...
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...
Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time
IFLScience· 21 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...
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...
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 ...
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...