Astronomers watch 1st black hole ever imaged launch a 3,000‑light‑year‑long cosmic jet from its glowing ‘shadow’
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New Cosmological Simulations Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes in Early Universe
New state-of-the-art simulations by Maynooth University astronomers show that in the dense, turbulent dawn of the cosmos, ‘light…
Supermassive black hole grows 13 times faster than cosmic speed limits
Japanese astronomers have discovered an extraordinary supermassive black hole in the early universe that is growing at a…
Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say
Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across…
James Webb Space Telescope figures out how black hole murdered Pablo’s Galaxy
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“The Model That We Started Off With is Wrong”: Astronomers Say These Odd Blue ‘Optical Transients’ Aren’t What We Thought They Were
Unusual blue and ultraviolet bursts called luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) have been studied by astronomers for…
Scientists spot monster black hole roaring with winds at more than 130 million mph
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Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow up
It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what…
James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy’s monster black hole fire out a flare
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The James Webb Space Telescope Discovered A Supermassive Black Hole
A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is 100 million times the mass of…
Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,”…