Supermassive Black Hole

Astronomers watch monster black hole spit out a light-year-long jet

Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can stretch for distances as great as 23 million light-years, extending way above and below the plane of the galaxy from which they erupt.

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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time

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Supermassive black hole births jets, hosts orbiting white dwarf, all while astronomers watch

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the point of no return.

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Astronomers concerned about billions of black holes eating ‘hidden’ matter

Astronomers have warned that billions of black holes are consuming "hidden" matter in the universe. Against the odds, Prince Harry has won a landmark victory A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life The gigantic Russian Ekranoplan aircraft carrier How quitting alcohol benefits your body after a day,

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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Black holes are spinning faster than expected, researchers find

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Mysterious Pulsing X-Rays From a Nearby Black Hole Baffle Astronomers

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

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 ...

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Astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

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New research suggests more supermassive black holes than we ever knew

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...

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Decoding Supermassive Black Holes: New Findings on Their Spin and Growth

Recent research suggests that supermassive black holes' spin rates, linked to their formation history, indicate growth ...

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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 ...

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