20 September 2017
A new way to 'weigh' extragalactic black holes
...from Moscow State University have found a new way to estimate the mass of elusive supermassive black holes located outside of the Milky Way. Black holes are notoriously difficult; difficult to find and difficult to study. In the past researchers have...
26 July 2019
Three massive black holes caught in the act of merging
...+1114. AGN is short for Active Galactic Nuclei and they are thought to be powered by centrally located supermassive black holes. Not all black holes are monstrous feeding machines. Some, like the one at the centre of our galaxy, are relatively...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
... the light from an object has been travelling to reach us here on Earth). The locations of quasars (galaxies with supermassive black holes) are shown by the red dots, and nearer galaxies mapped by SDSS are also shown (yellow). The...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... that are up to 100 times more energetic than typical explosions or from stars that are disrupted by a central supermassive black hole. However, there are also a few that are thought to originate in the innermost regions of their host galaxies...
12 September 2016
New study doubles the number of known quasars
... nature of these objects was debated for some time, it is now excepted that a quasar is the region around a supermassive black hole that emits up to a thousand times the energy output of the Milky Way through the accretion of matter. The...
24 March 2021
For the first time, astronomers image magnetic fields around M87 black hole
... world, when in a series of simultaneous press conferences held around the globe, gave humanity its first view of a black hole. It was the culmination of nearly two years of work by 200 international scientists from numerous institutions, who spent...
