Black Hole ‘Wind’ Influences Evolution of Its Host Galaxy
A newly published study is the first to directly connect a galaxy’s actively ‘feeding’ black hole to features found at much larger physical scales, revealing…
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Unusual Form of Cosmic Precipitation Can Affect the Growth and Evolution of Galaxies
New research based on x-ray data from Chandra shows how an unusual form of cosmic precipitation can affect the growth and evolution of galaxies, slowing…
First Time Solutions Provide New Insight in Black Hole Collisions
In a new study, astrophysicists provide for the first time solutions to decades-old equations that describe conditions as two black holes in a binary system…
Astronomers Discover Ultraluminous Quasar with a 12 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole
A newly published study details the discovery of the brightest quasar in the early universe, powered by the most massive black hole yet known at…
Chandra Discovers Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Spiral Galaxy NGC 2276
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered a newly cosmic object that may help provide answers to some long-standing questions about how black holes…
NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Telescopes Give Shape to Black Hole Winds
Using NASA’s NuSTAR and ESA’s XMM-Newton telescopes astronomers have measured the strength of ultra-fast winds from a supermassive black hole, proving that the winds are…
Dark Matter Influences Supermassive Black Hole Growth
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the ROSAT X-ray satellite’s all-sky survey, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a distinct…
VLA Reveals Unexpected “Storm” in Teacup Galaxy
Astronomers used VLA data, combined with VIMOS IFU data and HST imaging to reveal that a supermassive black hole is explosively heating and blasting around…
CID-42: A Recoiling, Supermassive Black Hole?
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics provides new insights from deep VLA data on the potentially recoiling black hole CID-42 in the COSMOS…
Yale Astronomers Identify the First “Changing Look” Quasar
A team of astronomers from Yale University have identified the first “changing look” quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its…
A Significant Step Towards Explaining the Cosmic Origins of the Seeds of Galaxies
In a new study, astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found that a small protostellar-like core of only 0.1 solar-masses can develop in only a…
NuSTAR Views Colliding Galaxies, Arp 299
This newly released image from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array shows two colliding galaxies, collectively called Arp 299, located 134 million light-years away. Each of…
Astronomers Discover a Possible Distant Black Hole Merger
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers detail an unusual repeating light signal from a distant quasar that they say is most likely…
Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Sagittarius A*
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking outburst from supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers…
A Pulsar Orbiting a Black Hole Could be the ‘Holy Grail’ for Testing Gravity
A new study examines in what sense a neutron star-black hole binary could be the ‘holy grail’ for testing gravity. The intermittent light emitted by…
NASA’s Swift Discovers an Unusual Source of Light
Using data from NASA’s Swift satellite and observations from many other facilities, an international team of astronomers has discovered an unusual source of light in…
NASA Telescopes Reveal That Sagittarius A* May Be Producing Neutrinos
Using three NASA satellites, astronomers have revealed the first evidence that the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole (Sagittarius A*) may be producing neutrinos. The giant…
MAGIC Telescopes Observe Black Hole Gamma-Ray Lightning
Using the MAGIC telescopes at La Palma, astronomers have recorded an extreme event coming from the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole located in…
