supermassive black hole
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Meet the ‘Event Horizon Explorer’, Which Aims to See Light Rings Around Black Holes
Astronomers transfixed the public in April 2019 when they released the first-ever image of a black hole, produced by radio wave data from a collaboration of telescopes around the world known collectively as the Event Horizon Telescope. Now, a team of physicists and researchers have developed the plans for the successor to that project: a…
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Ancient Stars Spinning Near Milky Way Centre Could Unravel Galactic Evolution
A group of astronomers comprising the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) just found a large group of ancient stars circling the galaxy’s centre in surprisingly orderly fashion. The astronomical team’s work is the largest set of detailed observations yet taken of these very old metal-poor stars orbiting near the core of the Milky Way. The…
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Behold: The First Image of Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole
The group behind the first image of a black hole just achieved another huge accomplishment: an image of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
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Strange Object Hidden in Dust May Be What Forms Before a Supermassive Black Hole
A team of researchers poring over archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope found an ancient object they believe may explain how quasars — supermassive black holes surrounded by jet-spewing discs of matter — emerge from dusty “starburst” galaxies.