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Strange Object Hidden in Dust May Be What Forms Before a Supermassive Black Hole
A team of researchers poring over archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope found an ancient object they believe may explain how quasars — supermassive black holes surrounded by jet-spewing discs of matter — emerge from dusty “starburst” galaxies.
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Astronomers Spot Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
Through a standard telescope, the nearby galaxy NGC 7727 looks like a gossamer tumbleweed drifting in the night sky. But within it are two supermassive black holes locked in a dance that will end with their violent merger. As a team of astronomers recently found, these objects are closer to Earth than any other supermassive…
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Astronomers Spot Unprecedented Flashes From Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
An attempt to prove Einstein’s hallmark theory of gravity revealed something even freakier: an unprecedented flash from the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.