1st results of XRISM X-ray space telescope reveal black hole and ...
WEB1 day ago · XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years away. This material gradually moved inwards to a distance of around 0. ...
NASA's Hubble Finds More Black Holes than Expected in the Early ...
WEB4 days ago · With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of researchers led by scientists in the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University has found more black holes in the early universe than has previously been reported. The new result can help scientists understand how supermassive black holes were created.
Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
WEB3 days ago · The jumbo jets blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy. Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. "This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about ...
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
WEBJun 19, 2024 · Sudden brightness in a distant galaxy has caused astronomers to observe an unprecedented celestial sight: the awakening of a supermassive black hole.
NASA's Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo
WEBSep 9, 2024 · The Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory looked in the heart of a pair of colliding galaxies and uncovered twin supermassive black holes waltzing around each other. The black hole duo, engorged with infalling gas, blazes brightly as active galactic nuclei (AGN). They are approximately 300 light …
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first …
WEBJun 18, 2024 · Over the past four years, astronomers have been able to watch the supermassive black hole in SDSS1335+0728’s center go from dim and quiet to bright and active, the first time such a transition...
Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the ... - NPR
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · New research that was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on Monday lays out the discovery of a distant quasar containing what scientists say is the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded.
NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
WEBNov 6, 2023 · Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1) using the Chandra and Webb space telescopes. X-ray emission is a telltale signature of a growing supermassive black hole. This result may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed.
Black hole jets on the scale of the cosmic web | Nature
WEB3 days ago · For the past 50 years, the known size range of black hole jet pairs ended at 4.6–5.0 Mpc (refs. 7, 8, 9), or 20–30% of a cosmic void radius in the Local Universe 10. An observational lack of ...
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of …
WEBMay 12, 2022 · Scientists are particularly excited to finally have images of two black holes of very different sizes, which offers the opportunity to understand how they compare and contrast. They have also begun to use the new data to test theories and models of how gas behaves around supermassive black holes.
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