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4 weeks ago

James Webb Spots First Ever Supermassive Black Hole to Be Yeeted Out of Its Home Galaxy

A 10-million-solar-mass supermassive black hole appears to be escaping its host galaxy at ~2.2 million mph, producing a galaxy-sized bow shock and 200,000-light-year tail.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Day 11 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Looking for Signs of a Black Hole

James Webb observations of M83 detected highly ionized neon gas indicating a likely supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Black Hole Caught Blasting Matter into Space at 130 Million MPH

Supermassive black holes are the monsters of the universe, so it is perhaps only fitting that astronomers discovered one of these behemoths unleashing a bright x-ray flare that one of the researchers, astronomer Matteo Guainazzi, described as almost too big to imagine in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. Within hours of erupting, the blast faded, and the black hole began to whip up winds more powerful than anything we can imagine on Earth
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fromMail Online
3 months ago

Scientists baffled by black hole growing at 2.4x the theoretical limit

Supermassive black hole RACS J0320-35, about a billion solar masses and 12.8 billion light-years away, is accreting at 2.4 times the theoretical limit.
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