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Supermassive black hole winds blowing at 36 million miles per hour can sculpt entire galaxies

A bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, is blasting out radiation that pushes away clouds of gas in…

1 week ago

Magnetic vortices may help feed supermassive black holes. Here’s how

It's a bit of a myth that black holes pull everything in. Much of the matter that finds itself falling…

2 weeks ago

NASA telescope spots ‘cosmic fireworks’ and faint echos from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

Astronomers have spotted flares and echos coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius…

3 weeks ago

Hubble Telescope maps high-speed ‘burps’ from nearby feeding supermassive black hole for 1st time

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time ever, mapped the plasma "burps" of a feeding supermassive…

3 weeks ago

Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole : ScienceAlert

A feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole…

1 month ago

Scientists use AI to reconstruct energetic flare blasted from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to construct a three-dimensional model of an energetic outburst, or flare, that occurred around the…

2 months ago

Why are some supermassive black hole jets so short? Astronomers may have cracked the case

A new investigation into a rare and short-lived type of galaxy has revealed that such objects harbor slumbering supermassive black…

3 months ago

Supermassive black hole’s mysterious ‘hiccups’ likely caused by violent neighbor

A hiccuping supermassive black hole has alerted astronomers to a whole new type of black hole behavior. In 2020, a previously…

3 months ago

Scientists Discover The Most Epic Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Ever Seen : ScienceAlert

A galaxy some 750 million light-years away has been discovered hosting the heftiest pair of supermassive black holes we've ever…

4 months ago

Event Horizon Telescope spies jets erupting from nearby supermassive black hole

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole in Earth's cosmic backyard as it blasts out jets of matter at near-light…

5 months ago

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