Scientists have discovered two supermassive black holes, locked together in a final, terrible spiral. They’re about to collide. And when they do, it will shake the fabric of spacetime itself. Combing through decades of radio telescope observation data, a team of Caltech astronomers discovered a radio pattern from the deep …
Read More »Dark Matter Could Solve the Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Formation
New cosmological research from the University of California Riverside connects two of the universe’s most perplexing phenomena: supermassive black holes and dark matter. According to physicist and astronomer Hai-Bo Yu, dark matter could be the key to understanding how enormous black holes formed in the early universe. This work is …
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Astronomers have discovered about 750,000 quasars, which are among the brightest and most energetic objects in the universe. Despite its uninspiring designation, J0313-1806 is distinct from other quasars. This recently spotted object is the oldest known quasar in the universe, with a supermassive black hole more than 13 billion …
Read More »Hubble spots rogue supermassive black hole ejected from its galaxy
Most large galaxies like our own Milky Way have a supermassive black hole in the center. It’s so common that astronomers just expect to see the telltale signs of a black hole in the heart of galaxies. But a new observation of a galaxy some 8 billion light years away …
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