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Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'
A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...
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Supermassive black hole displays ‘unprecedented’ X-ray outbursts
Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy ...
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The Largest 'Black Hole Jet' Discovered Is Estimated to Be Twice the Size of Our Milky Way
The Largest 'Black Hole Jet' Discovered Is Estimated to Be Twice the Size of Our Milky Way We know black holes to be ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...
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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns ... Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy beam directly at Earth.
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Black holes are spinning faster than expected, researchers find
Black holes and their archaeology The results of the SDSS Survey of mass measurements of hundreds of black holes were a surprise, according to Fries. That's because the spin rates reveal ...
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Scientists discover largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe — its twice as long as our galaxy
(For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is. It still has a mass equivalent to 450 million suns). Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick "Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive ...