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A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner.
In their study, the astronomers found that a supermassive black hole’s outer disk and torus could foster this cumulative growth with remarkable efficiency. In fact, their work suggests this process can churn out a broad range of objects: anything from Earth-mass planets to hefty, full-fledged stars with 300 times our sun’s mass.
A distant quasar has revealed one of the most extreme ultraviolet outflows ever observed, providing new clues about the powerful interactions between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies.
The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has been sharped using a machine learning technique called PRIMO. PRIMO is short for principal-component interferometric modeling.
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NASA’s Webb caught a supermassive black hole tearing away from its own galaxy at 2 million mph, and astronomers can’t fully explain how it broke loose
A supermassive black hole appears to be hurtling through intergalactic space at roughly 2 million miles per hour, dragging a 62-kiloparsec trail of disrupted gas behind it. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured spectroscopic data showing a sharp velocity jump of about 600 km/s across just one kiloparsec at the object’s leading edge,
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James Webb spots and measures dormant black hole from the dawn of the universe
An international team of astronomers has measured the mass of a dormant supermassive black hole more than 10 billion light-years away, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the early universe. The research,
Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10 across ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. The paper outlining the study was posted to the preprint server arXiv on May 18.