More unusually for its size, ESO 495-21 could have a supermassive black hole hiding at its core
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A ring of cool, interstellar gas was detected around the Milky Way’s central black hole
By imaging this cool disk of gas rotate around the supermassive black hole, astronomers can watch how the accretion process unfolds
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How many types of black hole are there?
These high-gravity objects come in more flavours than you might expect
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X-ray ‘chimneys’ deplete the energy generated at the centre of the Milky Way
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
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Most distant black hole has been discovered
The supermassive object was observed just 680 million years after the Big Bang
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Space telescope finds most distant black hole-powered galaxy
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
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Astronomers discover a ‘hyper-starburst’ galaxy
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes reveal that a recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction
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Cosmic oddity revealed in greater detail by Hubble Space Telescope
The spacecraft has revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 better than ever before
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Dieting black hole dims its host galaxy
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behaviour of a supermassive black hole
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Starving black hole causes galaxy to dim
The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved
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Supermassive black hole found in unlikely place
A near-record-breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, has been uncovered in a sparsely populated area of the universe
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Astronomers clock the spin rate of a supermassive black hole
The rotational rate of one of the most massive black holes in the universe has been measured
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Rare trio of quasars uncovered
Quasars might be rare, but a team of astronomers have hit the jackpot by uncovering three of these distant objects.