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James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain
NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years afte…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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Milky Way’s ‘quiet wimpy’ black hole is getting hungrier and brighter
The black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is normally benign. But, for the first…
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A stunning photo from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals 3 galaxies colliding
Galaxies merging together create starbursts and supermassive black hole collisions. The new James W…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics discover three supermassive black holes merging together
The rare occurrence in the nearby universe indicates that small merging groups are ideal laborat…
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Scientists spotted jets of hot gas whizzing out of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy
Authors of a new study reveal how they imaged plasma jets shooting out of a black hole nestled insi…
Aylin Woodward
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Supermassive black holes grew from mysterious ‘seeds’ that are yet to be found
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in outer space whose origins continue to perplex…
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A rare trio of supermassive black holes spotted as three galaxies collide
Located a billion light years away from Earth, the collision doesn't pose any threat to th…
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Supermassive black hole is tearing apart a star which got too close
TDEs occur when a supermassive black hole's forces are so strong that they overwhelm the star'…
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Astronomers captured rare images of a black hole shredding a star into spaghetti-like strands and devouring it
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory observed a black hole sucking in a faraway star, s…
Susie Neilson
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There was a big spark — 75 times brighter than usual — from the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way
Our solar system, the Milky Way, has a supermassive black hole at the heart of it and it just shine…
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ISRO, NASA just spotted a black hole spinning so fast that it could be making space itself rotate
Those X-rays were caused by gas and dust falling into the black hole, which is about 10 time…
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Stars are being born next to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in a stunning new image by the world's largest airborne telescope
The world's largest airborne telescope — the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFI…
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Invisible massive galaxies producing 1,000 suns a year could rewrite how the universe works
Billions of light years away and invisible to the naked eye, 39 massive galaxies are generating sta…
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The black hole at the center of our galaxy just belched two giant bubbles of radiation
Hints of the structures first emerged in the 1980s, when astronomer and physicist Farhad Yusef-Zade…
Michelle Starr
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2,076 black holes are lurking in this photo
The image above shows a piece of the sky in the constellation Fornax, and it's about 16 arcminutes …
Dave Mosher
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The movie 'Interstellar' came out exactly 5 years ago. Since then, new discoveries have changed our understanding of black holes.
In the movie "Interstellar," a fictional black hole called Gargantua takes center stage. The film c…
Aylin Woodward
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The scientists who photographed a supermassive black hole for the first time just won a $3 million prize. Here's their groundbreaking image.
"As a cloud of gas gets closer to the black hole, they speed up and heat up," Josephine Peters, an …
Aria Bendix
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'Like looking at the gates of Hell': Astronomers just showed off the first picture of a black hole, and it's a monster
The EHT was seriously challenged in this regard, though. While the telescope is considered to be Ea…
Dave Mosher
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A 'mind-boggling' telescope observation has revealed the point of no return for our galaxy's monster black hole
On big scales, it's a window into the history and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, which rotates …
Dave Mosher
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The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy suddenly lit up brighter than scientists had ever seen, and nobody knows why
In black holes, matter gets packed into a tiny space, giving them extremely powerful gravity - Sgr …