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James Webb Space Telescope sees lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories surrounding their growth to monster sizes.
JWST Spots Isolated Supermassive Black Hole-Powered Quasars in the Early Universe
JWST’s discovery of isolated quasars from 13 billion years ago baffles scientists, raising questions about black hole growth.
Supermassive black hole caught in act of cosmic destruction
A dramatic illustration of the event shows a disk of material that was created after a supermassive black hole tore apart a star.
Ancient supermassive black hole is blowing galaxy-killing wind, James Webb Space Telescope finds
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted the earliest powerful "galaxy-size" wind blowing from a feeding supermassive black hole-powered quasar. The powerful wind is pushing gas and dust from its galaxy at incredible speeds,
James Webb Space Telescope: Captures Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1559
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light-years away in the southern constellation Reticulum. Credit: Space.com | ESA/Webb,
James Webb Telescope Reveals Mysterious Supermassive Black Holes In Sparse Early Universe Quasar Fields
Quasars that have been found using the James Webb Space Telescope are powers made by a supermassive black hole. The age of these quasars can be traced back to the time when the universe was 13 billion years old.
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Could Colossal Black Hole Jets Have Shaped the Early Universe?
Supermassive black holes can expel jets of material so vast and powerful that they may shape the large-scale structure of the ...
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How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?
The giant holes in galaxies’ centers shouldn’t be able to merge, yet merge they do. Scientists suggest that an unusual form ...
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Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake
Get Wrecked New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a ______ killing spree, destroying one star before hunting down ...
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Cosmic feast: Supermassive black hole seen eating a star, then attacking another
A supermassive black hole shredded a star, causing eruptions linked to tidal disruptions. Study revealed these eruptions ...
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Monster black hole is a 'cosmic Michael Myers' killing a star and brutally attacking another
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has spotted the cosmic serial killer that, like Michael Myers, is back for a sequel, ...
Black hole destroys star, goes after another
A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star or smaller black ...
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A Supermassive Black Hole Destroying Stars Solves the Mystery of Stellar Eruptions
A massive black hole has ripped apart a star, and now it’s using the remnants of that star to impact another nearby star or ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Anatomy of a Black Hole
Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...
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NASA peers into the blistering hot plasma swirling around 12 black holes
Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...