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A Distant Galaxy Ate All of its Friends. Now It’s All Alone
An international team of astronomers discovered a "fossil galaxy" that consume its neighbors, the farthest observed to date!
A Mysterious Blob Near the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Might Finally Have an Explanation
New research from UCLA's Galactic Center Group has found an explanation for the mysterious "blob" (X7) at the center of…
Dust is Hiding how Powerful Quasars Really are
A new study has found that Active Galactic Nuclei are much brighter and similar to one another than previously thought.
Did Supermassive Black Holes Collapse Directly out of Giant Clouds of gas? It Could Depend on Magnetic Fields
New research shows how the seeds of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) could have formed from gas clouds with amplified magnetic…
Supermassive Black Holes Could Have Formed Directly in the Early Universe
There are a lot of amazing things in our Universe and a black hole is one of the most unknown.…
Best Image Ever Taken of Stars Buzzing Around the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
The GRAVITY collaboration just released the clearest images ever of the stars that orbit the supermassive black hole in the…
A Nearby Dwarf Galaxy has a Surprisingly Massive Black Hole in its Heart
New research from UT Austin shows that dwarf galaxies - like our neighbor, Leo I - also have massive black…
This is How a Supermassive Black Hole Feeds
A new simulation has provided new insight into how supermassive black holes grow by feeding off of cosmic gas captured…
A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind…
The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just captured another amazing image, this time of the relativistic jet coming from the center…