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An artist's impression of a transitioning red quasar -- a bright, compact object shrouded in clouds of red dust

Ultra-rare black hole ancestor detected at the dawn of the universe

By Brandon Specktor published

Scientists may have detected the first known 'transitioning red quasar' in the universe, dating to just 750 million years after the Big Bang.

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An artist's impression of dark matter in the beginning of the universe.

We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking's most far-out ideas

By Paul Sutter published

The recently launched James Webb Telescope should help determine if dark matter is made up of primordial black holes.

Astronomy
A recent image of the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 shows a powerful jet with a corkscrew-like helical structure. The jet extends 8,000 light-years from the black hole that lies at the center of the galaxy.

Black hole jet ejected by supermassive black hole is shaped like a helix

By Samantha Mathewson published

An extraordinary galactic jet ejected from a supermassive black hole boasts a corkscrew-like helical structure, new ground-based telescope views reveal.

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Artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole emitting a jet of energetic particles. Such black holes are also strong emitters of X-ray light, which is apparently reflected off gas and dust in the surrounding accretion disk..

How many black holes are there in the universe?

By Paul Sutter published

Opinion In a recent study, researchers determined that about 1% of all the "normal" (that is, not dark) matter in the universe is bound up inside black holes.

Opinion
An artist's depiction of the IC 10 X-1 system, a black hole lurks in the upper left corner.

Black holes may be growing as the universe expands

By Ben Turner published

The hypothesis could help to explain the weird discrepancies spotted in space-time ripples from enormous black hole collisions.

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The two ghostly figures, which appear to be dancing with each other, were first spotted during the pilot survey conducted by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder radio telescope.

Astronomers capture strange image of 'dancing ghosts' in the night sky

By Ben Turner published

Scientists think they know the origin of the image, but they’re still baffled by its bizarre shape.

Astronomy
This artist's visualization shows a supermassive black hole surrounded by dust and gas forming tsunamis on its outer edges.

Supermassive black holes could host giant, swirling gas 'tsunamis'

By Chelsea Gohd published

Could gas escaping the gravitational grasp of supermassive black holes be forming "tsunamis" in space?

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This radio band composite image of Arp 187, obtained by the VLA and ALMA telescopes (blue: VLA 4.86 GHz, green: VLA 8.44 GHz, red: ALMA 133 GHz), shows clear bimodal jet lobes. But the central nucleus (center of the image) is dark.

Astronomers spot 3,000 light-year 'light echo' of dying supermassive black hole

By Rahul Rao published

The "active galactic nucleus" phase of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Arp 187 has apparently just ended.

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Artist’s illustration of a galactic wind driven by a supermassive black hole located in the center of a galaxy. The intense energy emanating from the black hole creates a huge flow of gas that blows away the interstellar matter that is the material for forming stars.

Scientists spot earliest-known supermassive black hole 'storm'

By Mike Wall published

Scientists have found the earliest known "storm" generated by a supermassive black hole, a discovery that could shed considerable light on the coevolution of galaxies and their central black holes.

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This artist’s impression video shows the path of the star S2 as it passes very close to the supermassive "black hole" at the center of the Milky Way.

Fluffy ball of darkinos could be lurking at the center of the Milky Way

By Paul Sutter published

The supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy may not be a black hole at all, but rather a fluffy ball of dark matter called darkinos.

Cosmology
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