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Andromeda’s Supermassive Black Hole Feeding Habits Revealed by NASA’s Spitzer
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoNASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in...
'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan!...
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSupermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
SPACE.com· 6 days agoThe "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black ...
Astronomers measure a supermassive black hole’s spin
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoThis pioneering technique makes use of tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star passes too close to a black hole and is torn apart as a...
Did galaxies or supermassive black holes form first? - Interesting Engineering
Interesting Engineering· 24 hours agoThis idea is supported by the large number of such galaxies seen at high redshifts by JWST, more...
Supermassive black hole spin measured for the first time
Cosmos· 5 days agoFor the first time, astronomers have been able to determine how fast a black hole is spinning. The...
Spin of Supermassive Black Hole Measured at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThis week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a...
Groundbreaking Measurement Reveals a Black Hole Spinning at a Quarter the Speed of Light
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA team of astronomers has managed to calculate the speed of a distant supermassive black hole’s spin...
'Death Star' Black Holes Can Rapidly Swivel Massive Beams Onto New Targets
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn recent years astronomers have spotted signs that the jets of plasma particles fired out from...
Astronomers Stumbled Upon A Rare Chance To Capture Just How Fast A Supermassive Black Hole Spins
Inverse· 6 days agoThere are behemoths that lurk at the center of almost all large galaxies in the known universe,...