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One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...
A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.
A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...
Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...
Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?
The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...
This stunning Hubble view of spiral galaxy UGC 11397 captures more than graceful arms and glowing stars—it hides a ravenous ...
A newly discovered radio halo, 10 billion light-years away, reveals that galaxy clusters in the early universe were already steeped in high-energy particles. The finding hints at ancient black hole ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...
A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...
Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...