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This Supermassive Black Hole May Harbor a Bizarre Star That Refuses to Die
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
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Infrared images reveal how black holes affect the space around them
Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.
Supermassive Black hole 700 million times mass of Sun spotted firing energy beam at earth
Astronomers have detected the most ancient blazar ever observed, originating from the early universe and emitting a beam of ...
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'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to life
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
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Astronomers observe real-time formation of black hole jets for the first time
In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again by 2020 -- only to dramatically increase its output again in 2023. At that ...
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Could Black Hole-Sized Magnetic Fields Be Created on Earth?
Hours before Jan. 19, after the Supreme Court upheld a law that would require TikTok be sold to a U.S.-held company in order ...
700 million Suns’ worth of power fired at Earth and it could destroy us? Here's what we know
Astronomers have uncovered the most distant blazar ever discovered, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 700 million suns ...
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Powerful Beam From Ancient Black Hole 12.9 Billion Light-Years Away Targets Earth
In pursuit of understanding these celestial bodies, astronomers have stumbled upon a supermassive black hole, located a whopping 12.9 billion light-years from Earth, and it's doing something ...