quasars
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Fastest-Growing Black Hole Is Eating a Sun Per Day
Hey Siri, play Super Massive Black Hole. Our Sun is about 330,000 times the mass of Earth, yet it is dwarfed by the black holes that lurk at the centers of galaxies. A team of astronomers recently found the fastest-growing of this group: a 17-billion solar mass black hole in the distant universe, which is…
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Earth-Spanning Telescope Takes Unprecedented Image Of Black Hole Spewing Radiation
A worldwide network of telescopes has produced an image of a jet of radio waves appearing to blast out from the centre of a supermassive black hole at over 15 times the speed of light.
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This Bizarre Interstellar Observation Could Unlock The Mysteries Of Dark Matter
“I don’t know!” is among the most scientific phrases you can utter. “I don’t know” is the reason you do science, after all. “I don’t know” means more funding, more jobs, more mysteries, and ultimately, more “now I know”s. Astronomers have now uncovered an “I don’t know” that might become an important tool to study…
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Two Black Holes Are About To Smash Into Each Other
Three and a half billion light years away in the Virgo constellation, two supermassive black holes are on the verge of smacking into one another. In 100,000 years, their cosmic collision will send ripples across the fabric of spacetime.