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"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...
One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...
Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...
Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...
The discovery was made when researchers studied the supermassive-black-hole -powered Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) of a Seyfert galaxy located about 1.2 billion light-years away.
These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...
Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...
Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...