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Here's a new, ‘twisted' look at the black hole at the center of our galaxy
The imagery shows a fiery swirl around Sagittarius A*, and a similar one around another supermassive black hole, M87*, seen through polarized light, according to the research published in The ...
The Independent23d
Mysterious black hole starts flashing – and scientists don’t know why
The supermassive black hole has been sending out flashes that have increased in speed. Astronomers say they have never seen anything like it before. The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654 ...
Space.com28d
Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago
"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew so big in such a short timescale." Astronomers have discovered a ...
USA Today9d
The secret recipe of black holes: Study finds they can 'cook' their own meals in space
Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...
Smithsonian Magazine9mon
Black Holes
be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way ...