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supermassive black hole
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Head-on ‘Eye of Sauron’ blazar jet solves cosmic neutrino mystery
A rare, head-on view of the blazar PKS 1424+240 reveals how relativistic effects make it a top source of cosmic neutrinos and gamma rays, solving a decade-long mystery.
August 20, 2025
JWST confirms most distant black hole from early universe
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the most distant black hole ever found, a behemoth that challenges our understanding of how cosmic giants form so early in the universe's history.
August 18, 2025
AI helps scientists clock spin of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
By analyzing telescope data with a custom-built AI, scientists have discovered that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning at nearly its maximum possible speed.
June 18, 2025
Possible Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered Near Milky Way’s Core
At a Glance A star cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) at the center…
August 4, 2024
Can We Destroy Black Holes?
Assume a black hole is even coming our way, or perhaps our planet happens to approach one, and…
September 3, 2023
What Would You See If You Fell Into a Black Hole?
This is all hypothetical, of course, but imagine you’re about to fall into a black hole. What would…
September 2, 2023
Astronomers “Hear” Gravitational Waves Through the First-Ever Detection of a “Celestial Hum”
Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery by detecting the cosmic hum of gravitational waves generated by black hole…
July 11, 2023
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
OzGrav / Swinburne / Carl Knox Daniel Reardon, Swinburne University of Technology and Andrew Zic, CSIRO When black…
July 10, 2023
