At the heart of a quasar galaxy called RACS J0320-35, just 920 million years after the Big Bang, the black hole appears to be ...
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Astronomers Watched a Black Hole Unexpectedly Flip Its Magnetic Field, Challenging Theoretical Models
A series of observations between 2017 and 2021 suggest the supermassive structure’s magnetized plasma is more dynamic than ...
In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed.
Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...
One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...
New observations of M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, revealed that the supermassive blackhole has experienced several ...
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The First Black Hole We Ever Saw Is Doing Something Never Seen Before
Images taken of the Universe's most photogenic black hole over time reveal strange and exciting changes in its magnetic field. Using observations obtained using the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017, ...
Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...
Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...
The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...
Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...
Black hole, nearly 55M light-years from Earth, was first photographed in 2017, marking humanity’s first ‘sight’ of such ...
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