[ad_1] When a supermassive black hole features such jets, it’s classified as a blazar. Astronomers posit that the magnetic poles of the black hole channel the energy up from the accretion disc and shoot it out with a tremendous amount of energy — the jet captured in the image is traveling at about 0.995 times […]
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Scientists find the largest observed black hole to date
[ad_1] The team spotted the black hole using data from the Very Large Telescope array. The wealth of extra data from the Chile observatory helped them map the structure of Holm 15A in unprecedented detail, helping them run simulations to explain the galaxy’s formation and its unusually faint center. Simply speaking, the black hole is […]
Russia launches X-ray telescope to find ‘millions’ of black holes
[ad_1] Spektr-RG is expected to conduct an exceptionally detailed 6.5-year survey that could discover roughly 100,000 galaxy clusters, hundreds of thousands of active stars and about 3 million supermassive black holes. In addition to providing a more detailed map of the cosmos, it could help understand the formation of black holes, the distribution of matter […]
Scientists think some supermassive black holes didn’t start as stars
[ad_1] In the most simple terms, the model suggests that supermassive black holes formed “very, very quickly over very, very short periods of time” and then stopped suddenly. “Supermassive black holes only had a short time period where they were able to grow fast and then at some point, because of all the radiation in […]