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This is How a Supermassive Black Hole Feeds
A new simulation has provided new insight into how supermassive black holes grow by feeding off of cosmic gas captured…
A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind…
The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center…
New Mosaic Shows the Galactic Core From Opposite Sides of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
NASA recently released a panoramic mosaic image that beautifully captures the mysterious and extremely energetic environment at the heart of…
There’s a Black Hole With 34 Billion Times the Mass of the Sun, Eating Roughly a Star Every Day
In the 1960s, astronomers began theorizing that there might be black holes in the Universe that are so massive -…
Supermassive Black Hole Orbits an Even More Massive Black Hole, Crashing Through its Accretion Disk Every 12 Years
Recent observations by the now-retired Spitzer mission have led to accurate predictions OJ 287, a blazar that contains a supermassive…
How were Supermassive Black Holes Already Forming and Releasing Powerful Jets Shortly After the Big Bang?
A series of studies has shown that the seeds of supermassive black holes and relativistic jets existed much sooner than…
Blazar Found Blazing When the Universe was Only a Billion Years Old
A team of European scientists have observed the most distant "blazar" to date, an active galaxy that was around when…
SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens
Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive SETI survey in history, has just made its second release of data, and its once…
More Mysterious Space Blobs Have Been Found Near the Center of the Milky Way
Scientists have found six objects near the center of our galaxy that orbit Sagittarius A. These objects appear to be…