One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...
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Milky Way's Massive Black Hole Spaghettified Filament Of Gas
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
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Scientists Turn James Webb to Examine Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy and Saw Something Wild
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered 13 billion years in the past and tens of billions of light-years away from our ...
Multi-line reverberation mapping uncovers hidden dynamics in active galactic nuclei
A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently published a study in The ...
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‘Now I see you moment’ for Andhra-origin scientist. How her team identified 2,500 potential black holes
Discovery triples known active black holes in dwarf galaxies, doubles intermediate black hole candidates, and challenges ...