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 ...
Galaxy growth halted by supermassive black holes
Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.
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How Our Galaxy's Black Hole Was Captured
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
Cosmic Megastructure 32 Times Bigger Than The Milky Way Discovered
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Revolutionary Telescope Captures Sharpest View Ever of a Supermassive Black Hole in Action
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
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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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Astronomers investigate black hole jets with Event Horizon Telescope
"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...
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Newfound galaxy class may indicate early black hole growth
One possible answer is inside-out growth: As star formation within a galaxy expands outward from the nucleus, less gas is being deposited by supernovas near the accreting black hole, and it ...