All articles tagged with #supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has potentially confirmed the first observed case of a supermassive black hole escaping its host galaxy at 2.2 million mph, leaving behind a trail of young stars and creating a shockwave, providing new insights into galaxy and black hole dynamics.
Using the JWST, astronomers observed the galaxy Virgil transforming from a seemingly normal galaxy into a 'cosmic monster' with a supermassive black hole at its core, revealing insights into early galaxy evolution and the potential existence of hidden black hole populations in the universe.
Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole, RBH-1, escaping its galaxy at nearly 1,000 km/s, leaving a trail of newborn stars and a shock front, confirming long-standing theories about black hole ejections during galaxy mergers, with implications for galaxy evolution and future discoveries.
Astronomers using JWST have confirmed the existence of RBH-1, a supermassive black hole at least 10 million times the Sun's mass, ejected from its galaxy at 954 km/s likely due to a merger and gravitational recoil, providing empirical evidence for long-predicted black hole ejection mechanisms.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a runaway supermassive black hole, 10 million times the sun's mass, moving at 2.2 million mph through the Cosmic Owl galaxies, leaving a trail of star-forming gas and shock waves, and providing new insights into black hole ejections during galaxy mergers.
Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy devouring matter at 2.4 times the Eddington limit, providing evidence for super-Eddington accretion which may explain how black holes grew so rapidly in the early universe, challenging existing theories about black hole formation and growth.
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, RACS J0320-35, in the early universe that is growing at over twice the theoretical limit, challenging existing models of black hole growth and cosmic evolution, and prompting new questions about the formation of massive cosmic structures.
Astronomers have discovered the most massive black hole ever measured, located at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, with a mass of 36 billion Suns, providing new insights into black hole and galaxy growth.,
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, RACS J0320-35, in the early universe that is growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit, challenging current understanding of black hole growth and suggesting such rapid growth may be more common in the early cosmos.
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, RACS J0320-35, in the early universe that is growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit, challenging current models of black hole growth and raising questions about how such massive objects formed so quickly after the Big Bang.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered QSO1, a supermassive black hole of 50 million solar masses that appears to be rogue and without a galaxy, challenging existing theories of black hole formation and suggesting it may be a primordial or direct-collapse black hole formed in the early universe.
Astronomers using gravitational lensing effects discovered radiation from a quasar's core, revealing a hot, magnetic corona around a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy, with potential for further insights into black hole environments.
Scientists may have discovered the first known triple black hole system, involving a supermassive black hole and a pair of merging black holes, initially detected through gravitational waves in 2019. The system's complex dynamics suggest the smaller black holes were influenced by a hidden supermassive black hole, providing new insights into black hole formation and interactions.
Scientists may have discovered the first known triple black hole system, involving two merging black holes and a hidden supermassive black hole, providing new insights into black hole formation and dynamics.
Astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory have discovered evidence suggesting that binary black holes may orbit a third, more massive object, possibly a supermassive black hole, based on unusual gravitational wave signals from GW190814. This groundbreaking finding indicates the presence of a third compact object influencing black hole mergers, opening new avenues for understanding black hole systems and their formation. Future advanced detectors will likely uncover more such complex systems.