Astronomers Confirm Link between Galaxy Mergers and Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a large survey to investigating the relationship between galaxies that have undergone mergers and the activity of…
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Rare Quasar Quartet Reveals Massive Structure in Distant Universe
Astronomers have discovered four active black holes situated in close proximity to one another in the distant universe, surrounded by a giant nebula of cool…
Hubble Image of the Week – Tangled NGC 6240
First viewed in 2008, this Hubble image shows galaxy NGC 6240. Not all galaxies are neatly shaped, as this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image…
Chandra Reveals Black Holes Gorging at Excessive Rates
New research from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals the existence of a population of black holes that is consuming extremely large amounts of material, possibly…
NuSTAR Spots Mysterious Glow of High-Energy X-Rays at Our Galaxy Center
NASA’s NuSTAR has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays at the center of our Galaxy. Astronomers aren’t sure what the sources of the extra…
Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies Can Form Massive Black Holes
New research shows that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn’t supposed to be, opening a new door to understanding what…
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…
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…
