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Deep Space

A dwarf galaxy 3,000 light years away is forming stars at an unusually incredible rate

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

Deep Space

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

Deep Space

How many types of black hole are there?

These high-gravity objects come in more flavours than you might expect

Deep Space

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

Deep Space

Most distant black hole has been discovered

The supermassive object was observed just 680 million years after the Big Bang

News

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

News

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

News

Dieting black hole dims its host galaxy

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of the peculiar volatile behaviour of a supermassive black hole

News

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

News

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

News

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

News

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.

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