supermassive black hole - Search News

Supermassive black hole, Earth

Hosted on MSN · 23h

Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

Space on MSN · 1d

Feeding supermassive black holes are more common than thought across the universe

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole."

Powerful Beam From Ancient Black Hole 12.9 Billion Light-Years Away Targets Earth

Supermassive black holes with powerful jets of high-energy particles, pointing directly at Earth are called blazars.

1d

Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d

Astronomers Found Strange, Accelerating X-Ray Pulses Coming From a Black Hole. They Might Be a Sign of an Orbiting White Dwarf

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

1don MSN

First-ever detection of a mid-infrared flare in Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive massive black hole

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

20h

Cosmic Titans Born From Chaos: How Star Collisions Forged the Universe’s First Supermassive Black Holes

Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...

Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you

Show inaccessible results