M87* observations catch the black hole's turbulent accretion flow
Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...
Supermassive Black Hole Caught Doing Something Never Seen Before
Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...
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The black hole M87*: What has changed in one year
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Mysterious black hole starts flashing – and scientists don’t know why
A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...
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Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago
"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...
A strange black hole is acting even stranger
A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.
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Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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Infrared images reveal how black holes affect the space around them
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
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This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Bizarre Star That Refuses to Die
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...