Billions of Hidden Black Holes Could Be Lurking in Space
Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...
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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
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Twisted magnetic fields in space sculpt the jets of black holes and baby stars
By studying the fastest jet ever seen erupting from an infant star, astronomers have discovered that the mechanism that ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
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Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holes
Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...
NASA Unveils a Hidden Universe of Supermassive Black Holes
By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...
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Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Data Collected By 'Legion' Of Telescopes
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
An illustration shows seven "little red dot" galaxies embedded in the cosmic web, one of which is dominated by a supermassive black hole. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Using the James ...
Black holes cook their own meals, according to NASA’s Chandra X-ray study; here’s how
Scientists have found that supermassive black holes self-grow by regulating the cooling of surrounding hot gas, forming warm ...
Astronomers Capture Supermassive Black Hole Plasma Jets at Birth
Plasma jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 provide new insights into jet formation.
How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
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Listen to The Eerie 'Sounds' From A Black Hole, Captured by NASA
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...