More unusually for its size, ESO 495-21 could have a supermassive black hole hiding at its core

More unusually for its size, ESO 495-21 could have a supermassive black hole hiding at its core
By imaging this cool disk of gas rotate around the supermassive black hole, astronomers can watch how the accretion process unfolds
These high-gravity objects come in more flavours than you might expect
As stars form and black holes throw out energy, the centre of galaxies can have a build up of energy and require these ‘chimneys’ to offer a route to escape
The supermassive object was observed just 680 million years after the Big Bang
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by supersized black holes
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes reveal that a recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction
The spacecraft has revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 better than ever before
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behaviour of a supermassive black hole
The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved
A near-record-breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, has been uncovered in a sparsely populated area of the universe
The rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe has been measured
Quasars might be rare, but a team of astronomers have hit the jackpot by uncovering three of these distant objects.