Artist’s impression of the bright core region of a quasar, an active galaxy. The supermassive black hole in the centre…
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Illustration of a tidal disruption event (TDE). A novel technique by MIT and NASA scientists employs accretion disk wobbles from…
Read More »Recent research explores the potential of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to detect Earth-mass primordial black holes, a theoretical…
Read More »The black holes in orbit around each other. Both black holes have jets associated with them: the larger one with…
Read More »A Penn State research team has enhanced our understanding of supermassive black hole growth by integrating X-ray data and galaxy…
Read More »An artist’s impression of a quasar wind (in light blue) being launched off of the accretion disk (red-orange) around a…
Read More »Researchers at Michigan State University investigated the behavior of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our…
Read More »In late 2019, a previously unremarkable galaxy suddenly started shining brighter, suggesting the sudden awakening of a massive black hole…
Read More »The upcoming Roman Space Telescope may unveil a new class of “featherweight” black holes, challenging existing theories of black hole…
Read More »Michigan State University researcher Grace Sanger-Johnson found nine previously undiscovered X-ray flares from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central supermassive…
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