Extreme nuclear transients: a new study using space and ground-based data from NASA, ESA, and other institutions describes three extreme examples of supermassive black holes feasting on massive stars.
☑️ https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/astrophysics/3-black-holes-caught-eating-massive-stars-in-nasa-data/
☑️ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0074
This is the Million Earth star system, and you can see how useful Super Massive Black Holes can be.
I would imagine the local 'gods' would be fighting over our one at the centre of the Milky Way....
https://planetplanet.net/2018/06/01/the-million-earth-solar-system/
Six years since ALMA crucially helped the Event Horizon Telescope take the first image of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy… you can relive it all below!
https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomers-capture-first-image-of-a-black-hole/
#ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimetreArray #AtacamaLargeMillimeterArray #EHT #EventHorizonTelescope #BH #BlackHole #SuperMassiveBlackHole #SMBH #EHTBlackHole #RealBlackHole
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of our own, and like ours, it has a Super Massive Black Hole at its centre, holding the whole show together
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/second-closest-supermassive-black-hole/
#LargeMagellanicCloud #Astronomy #SMBH
An article published in the journal Nature Astronomy reports the results of a study of seven galaxy clusters that contain various supermassive black holes that offers evidence that outbursts generated at these black holes help cool the gas they feed on. Outbursts in the form of jets from the supermassive black holes cool the gas by forming thin filaments. Some gas will eventually flow back toward those black holes, triggering more outbursts,
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2025/01/28/supermassive-black-holes-cook-their-own-meals/
M87 Releases a Rare and Powerful Outburts of Gamma-ray Radiation https://www.universetoday.com/170135/m87-releases-a-rare-and-powerful-outburts-of-gamma-ray-radiation/ #eventhorizontelescope #relativisticjet #gammarayburst #blackholes #astronomy #featured #flare #m87* #smbh #eht #m87
#astronomy #SMBH #quasar Two articles - one published in the journal "Nature Astronomy" and one in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" - report different aspects of a study of the #blazar cataloged as VLASS J041009.05−013919.88, or simply J0410−0139, the most distant found so far. Two teams of researchers used several space and ground-based telescopes and some radio telescopes to obtain detections in various electromagnetic bands.
#astronomy #galaxy #CentaurusA #SMBH
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of X-ray observations of the jets emitted by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Centaurus A galaxy. A team of researchers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find a V-shaped structure that indicates that one of the jets hit something whose nature is uncertain.
#astronomy #JWST #DwarfGalaxies #SMBH #LID568
An article published in the journal "Nature Astronomy" reports the results of the study of the dwarf galaxy cataloged as LID-568, which has at its center a supermassive black hole that is devouring materials at a rate that is more than 40 times faster than its theoretical limits.
I don't know why such unimaginably large and powerful things instil a deep dread in me like no other object can but it fascinates me all the less.
https://www.space.com/largest-known-black-hole-discovered-through-gravitational-lensing
Beautiful cover arts for the latest issues of Nature and Nature Astronomy
Credits:
1. Erik Wernquist/Dylan Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration)/Martijn Oei
2. Carl Knox, OzGrav - Swinburne University of Technology. Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic
#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Nature #NatureAstronomy #cover #art #covertart #Porphyrion #SMBH #blackhole #blackholes #Cosmology #CosmicWeb #Universe #pulsar #pulsars #ASKAP #radiotelescope #NeutronStar #WhiteDwarf #star #stars #science #STEM #Astrodon
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the results of a census of the youngest supermassive black holes that existed in the early universe. A team of researchers used observations conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope that started from the so-called Hubble Ultra Deep Field to search for primordial supermassive black holes with the addition of data recently collected using the James Webb Space Telescope.
#astronomy #cosmology #galaxies #JWST #SMBH
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of a study of primordial galaxies that seemed too massive for their age, concluding that it was actually the light generated by the activity of their supermassive black holes that created a wrong impression.
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Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit UZH-Beteiligung schlägt eine neuartige Methode vor, um supermassereiche Schwarze Löcher in den Zentren von Galaxien zu entdecken. Als Beobachtungstechnik nutzen die Wissenschaftler die Analyse von Gravitationswellen kleiner nahegelegener Schwarzer Löcher. Eine Medienmitteilung der Universität Zürich.
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/uzh-kleine-schwarze-loecher-koennen-die-existenz-grosser-schwarzer-loecher-offenbaren/
5.8.2024
#Astrophysik #Astronomie #ESA #Gravitationswellen #LISA #SchwarzesLoch #SMBH #UZH #zurich
In a new #study, #scientists from Canada have proposed a solution to the #finalparsecproblem of #supermassiveblackhole (#SMBH) #mergers using self-interacting #darkmatter.
#astronomy #JWST #SMBH #quasar
A new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the quasar cataloged as RX J1131-1231, or simply RX J1131. About six billion light-years away from Earth, it's visible in three different copies, recognizable in the upper part of the bright ring in the center of the image, due to a gravitational lensing effect generated by a galaxy between it and Earth.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/07/09/a-quasar-tripled-by-a-gravitational-lens/
#astronomy #quasar #SMBH #reionization #CosmicDawn
An article published in the journal "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the discovery of the most distant pair of merging quasars known. A team of researchers combined observations from the Subaru Telescope with the Gemini North Telescope to find traces of this pair of quasars that we see as they were about 900 million years after the Big Bang.
Read the details at https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/06/20/first-pair-of-merging-quasars-observed-at-cosmic-dawn/
An article accepted for publication in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" reports the results of the observation of a new activity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy cataloged as SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 and called "simply" SDSS1335+0728. A team of researchers used observations conducted with various instruments to observe an increase in this galaxy's brightness.
#astronomy #galaxies #SMBH #DeathStar
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports a study of supermassive black holes that emit jets of energy that are aimed in different directions over time.
An article published in the journal "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the results of observations of a structure similar to a chimney which functions as a sort of vent from which hot gas coming from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, escapes.
