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Hubble Space Telescope finds closest massive black hole to Earth — a cosmic clue frozen in time
By Robert Lea last updated
The Hubble Telescope has discovered a black hole "frozen in time" that's also the closest massive black hole to Earth.
James Webb Space Telescope sees an ancient black hole dance with colliding galaxies
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the dramatic dance between a supermassive black hole-powered quasar and merging galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Quasars are 'cosmic signposts' pointing to rare supermassive black hole pairs
By Robert Lea published
New research suggests that galaxies with quasars at their active hearts are seven times more likely to harbor elusive supermassive black hole binary paintings than other galaxies.
Watch a supermassive black hole trap a 'fluffy' disk in this simulation
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
A new computer simulation flies through tangled galaxies and zooms in on a black hole to dissect how these voids feats on surrounding matter.
Weird physics at the edges of black holes may help resolve lingering 'Hubble trouble'
By Robert Lea published
The expansion of the universe may not be accelerating at the edges of black holes. If this is the case at all event horizons, this may explain "Hubble tension," and the worst prediction in physics.
Missing Milky Way black holes are bad news for this dark matter theory
By Robert Lea published
After 20 years watching stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud for hints of a phenomenon predicted by Einstein, scientists throw doubt on the connection between ancient black holes and dark matter.
Why is mystery object Cygnus X-3 so bright? Astronomers may now have the answer
By Keith Cooper published
The X-ray-emitting binary system Cygnus X-3 features a massive Wolf-Rayet star donating matter to a compact object, probably a black hole.
This impossibly massive black hole wasn't very hungry during the dawn of time
By Robert Lea published
The James Webb Space Telescope saw a supermassive black hole that wasn't overfeeding when time began, deepening the mystery of how black hole grew so massive so quickly.
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