supermassive black holes
A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years
Black holes are gluttonous behemoths that lurk in the center of galaxies. Almost everybody knows that nothing can escape them,…
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.…
Astronomers Discover two Supermassive Black Holes Orbiting Each Other, Doomed to Collide in the Future.
Until recently, one of the closest orbiting each other pairs of supermassive blackholes was found in NGC 7727. That pair…
If you had Radio Telescopes for Eyes, one of the Biggest Things in the sky Would be a jet of Material Blasting out of a Nearby Galaxy
Astronomers have captured a radio galaxy that spans 16 Moon-widths in the sky.
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…
Galaxy Found With Twin Supermassive Black Holes
For literally being black in the truest sense of the word, black holes are surprisingly easy to spot. Astronomers have…
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…
Next Generation Telescopes Could Detect the Direct Collapse of Enormous Black Holes Near the Beginning of Time
The first black holes to appear in the universe may have formed from the direct collapse of gas. When they…
Astronomers Have a new way to Measure the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes
Even the most supermassive of the supermassive black holes aren't very large, making it extremely difficult to measure their sizes.…