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Nearest Star-Eating Supermassive Black Hole Starts On New VictimArtist's impression of AT2019qiz, an event where a supermassive black hole consumed a star, creating a cloud through which a star or smaller black hole then repeatedly ran.

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Nearest Star-Eating Supermassive Black Hole Starts On New VictimArtist's impression of AT2019qiz, an event where a supermassive black hole consumed a star, creating a cloud through which a star or smaller black hole then repeatedly ran.
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Nearest Star-Eating Supermassive Black Hole Starts On New Victim

clock-iconOctober 10, 2024
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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova ExplosionsAn artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]

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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova ExplosionsAn artist’s concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of centre and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from centre left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy’s black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.]
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Powerful Black Hole Jets Might Be Triggering Unrelated Nova Explosions

clock-iconSeptember 27, 2024
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Iron At 10 Billion Degrees Seen Around Supernova In New Telescope's First Discoveryat the center of the image there is a black sphere: the black hole. Around it there is a thin swirling disk, the accretion disk. Just further out a tumultuous thicker disk is shown. and surrounding everything a thick cloudy donut.

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Iron At 10 Billion Degrees Seen Around Supernova In New Telescope's First Discoveryat the center of the image there is a black sphere: the black hole. Around it there is a thin swirling disk, the accretion disk. Just further out a tumultuous thicker disk is shown. and surrounding everything a thick cloudy donut.
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Iron At 10 Billion Degrees Seen Around Supernova In New Telescope's First Discovery

clock-iconSeptember 23, 2024
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Truly Supermassive Black Hole Has Jets Spanning 23 Million Light-Years, The Biggest Ever SeenArtist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion these jets span at least 23 million light-years, 140 times the length of the Milky Way.

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Truly Supermassive Black Hole Has Jets Spanning 23 Million Light-Years, The Biggest Ever SeenArtist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion these jets span at least 23 million light-years, 140 times the length of the Milky Way.
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Truly Supermassive Black Hole Has Jets Spanning 23 Million Light-Years, The Biggest Ever Seen

clock-iconSeptember 18, 2024
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A Black Hole Is Starving Its Galaxy To Death, But Not How You ThinkIn this field GS-10578 looks like other galaxies only redder because of how fast it is moving away from us. But it's distinctive in forming no new stars because so much gas is being expelled.

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A Black Hole Is Starving Its Galaxy To Death, But Not How You ThinkIn this field GS-10578 looks like other galaxies only redder because of how fast it is moving away from us. But it's distinctive in forming no new stars because so much gas is being expelled.
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A Black Hole Is Starving Its Galaxy To Death, But Not How You Think

clock-iconSeptember 17, 2024
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Highest Resolution Observations From Earth Yet Will Reveal Hidden Details Of Black HolesThe picture show the fuzzy warped structure of light around a black hole but now it appears in different colors providing insights into the different parts.

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Highest Resolution Observations From Earth Yet Will Reveal Hidden Details Of Black HolesThe picture show the fuzzy warped structure of light around a black hole but now it appears in different colors providing insights into the different parts.
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Highest Resolution Observations From Earth Yet Will Reveal Hidden Details Of Black Holes

clock-iconAugust 27, 2024
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Dark Matter Particles Could Be Key To Supermassive Black Holes’ Merger MysteryWhile surrounded by material it is easy for black holes to fall towards each other, but how they cross the last stretch takes some explaining, once all the nearby matter has been expelled.

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Dark Matter Particles Could Be Key To Supermassive Black Holes’ Merger MysteryWhile surrounded by material it is easy for black holes to fall towards each other, but how they cross the last stretch takes some explaining, once all the nearby matter has been expelled.
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Dark Matter Particles Could Be Key To Supermassive Black Holes’ Merger Mystery

clock-iconJuly 23, 2024
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Puzzlingly Young Stars Are Swarming Around Our Galaxy's Black HoleSagittarius A* seen in near infra-red

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Puzzlingly Young Stars Are Swarming Around Our Galaxy's Black HoleSagittarius A* seen in near infra-red
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Puzzlingly Young Stars Are Swarming Around Our Galaxy's Black Hole

clock-iconJune 25, 2024
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Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First TimeIllustration of the two supermassive black holes in OJ 287 at a rare moment when the smaller SMBH outsines its companion.

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Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First TimeIllustration of the two supermassive black holes in OJ 287 at a rare moment when the smaller SMBH outsines its companion.
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Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time

clock-iconJune 14, 2024
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Galactic Centers Might Experience A Traffic Jam Of Black HolesArtist impression of a bright accretion disc around a supermassive black hole

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Galactic Centers Might Experience A Traffic Jam Of Black HolesArtist impression of a bright accretion disc around a supermassive black hole
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Galactic Centers Might Experience A Traffic Jam Of Black Holes

clock-iconApril 25, 2024
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Zombie-Like Stars Arise From Stellar CannibalismA simulation of the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Density and speed both rise as one gets closer, increasing the number of collisions and changing their nature

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Zombie-Like Stars Arise From Stellar CannibalismA simulation of the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Density and speed both rise as one gets closer, increasing the number of collisions and changing their nature
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Zombie-Like Stars Arise From Stellar Cannibalism

clock-iconApril 4, 2024
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"Overmassive" Black Holes – Too Big For Their Own Galaxies – Discovered In The Early UniverseThe image is divided in two diagonally. IN the middle, an artist impression of a supermassive black hole. On one side a galaxy that is small and red and on the other a much bigger galaxy like you would see in the local universe.

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"Overmassive" Black Holes – Too Big For Their Own Galaxies – Discovered In The Early UniverseThe image is divided in two diagonally. IN the middle, an artist impression of a supermassive black hole. On one side a galaxy that is small and red and on the other a much bigger galaxy like you would see in the local universe.
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"Overmassive" Black Holes – Too Big For Their Own Galaxies – Discovered In The Early Universe

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The Jet Of M87* Might Be Stealing Energy From The Supermassive Black HoleThe elliptical galaxy is just a bright sphere whose feature can't really be distingusih but a prominent blue jet is seen stetchign out like a ribbon from its center

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The Jet Of M87* Might Be Stealing Energy From The Supermassive Black HoleThe elliptical galaxy is just a bright sphere whose feature can't really be distingusih but a prominent blue jet is seen stetchign out like a ribbon from its center
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The Jet Of M87* Might Be Stealing Energy From The Supermassive Black Hole

clock-iconNovember 15, 2023
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How Do Black Holes Die?Artist impression of an actively accreting supermassive black hole

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How Do Black Holes Die?Artist impression of an actively accreting supermassive black hole
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How Do Black Holes Die?

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Wobbling Jet Provides First Confirmation Black Holes SpinA misalignment between the axis of spin of M87's black hole and its accretion disk's rotation axis leads to precession in the direction of its jet

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Wobbling Jet Provides First Confirmation Black Holes SpinA misalignment between the axis of spin of M87's black hole and its accretion disk's rotation axis leads to precession in the direction of its jet
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Wobbling Jet Provides First Confirmation Black Holes Spin

clock-iconSeptember 28, 2023
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