Why is the Cygnus X-3 mystery object so bright? Astronomers may now have the answer
by It has been shown to be a smaller-scale example of some of the most luminous quasars in a binary system containing a superstar and a …
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A supermassive black hole’s winds blowing at 36 million miles per hour can sculpt entire galaxies
A bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, is blasting radiation that pushes the gas clouds around it to generate winds that reach speeds …
How 2 quasars at dawn could be the Rosetta stone for the early universe
A double quasar heading for a major merger has been discovered illuminating the “cosmic beauty”, just 900 million years after the Big Bang. They are …
12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations
The history of galaxies’ dark cores has been told almost entirely for the first time, as astronomers combine X-ray observations with supercomputer models to describe …
A star that exploded like a nuclear bomb is still raising questions half a century later
After a thermonuclear explosion in a binary star system about 3,400 light years away has been witnessed by the Hubble Space Telescope. HM Sagittae, or …
Time warps and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
The “wobbling” remains of a star that suffered an ugly death at the maw of a supermassive black hole helped reveal the speed of its …
Scientists use the XRISM spacecraft to predict the fate of matter around a supermassive black hole
Black hole week is in full swing right now, and to celebrate, NASA has released stunning views of the heart of a distant spiral galaxy …
Scientists use AI to recreate the Milky Way’s massive black hole in an energetic flare
Scientists used artificial intelligence to build a three-dimensional model of an energetic spark, or flare, that occurred around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius …
The mysterious hiccups of the giant black hole ‘probably caused by a ‘black hole’ in the vicinity
Astronomers have revealed an entirely new type of black hole behavior in a supermassive black hole. In 2020, a previously quiescent black hole at the …
The brightest quasar ever seen is powered by a black hole that eats ‘a sun a day’
Newly discovered quasar is a real record breaker. Not only is it the brightest quasar ever seen, but it is the brightest astronomical object in …