Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million cosmic scenes, including supermassive black holes, merging galaxies, and supernova explosions.
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Flashes of gravitationally lensed starlight could act as cosmic lighthouses revealing the presence of binary supermassive black holes in close orbit.
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The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical “eye of the storm” swirling around supermassive black holes.
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Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don’t just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate star formation for their neighbors.
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The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early universe.
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If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.
An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star.
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Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.
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Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to how black holes form.
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It’s nicknamed Jetty McJetface.