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"Since the 1970s, both theories and simulations all suggest that supermassive black holes should have a strong impact on the ...
Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...
Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...
A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.
Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...
NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of the active galactic center in spiral galaxy UGC 11397, located in the ...
Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...
Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...
A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...
A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...
Thanks to its cosmic closeness, Hubble reveals exquisite details in NGC 4941, including individual star clusters and ...
The "deaths" of galaxies are caused by their central supermassive black holes, and the "smoking gun" evidence of this connection takes an unexpected form.