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Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered: Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever Found
November 28, 2012 — Astronomers have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five times more powerful than any that have been observed to date. Quasars are extremely bright galactic ... > full story -
Super-Massive Black Hole Inflates Giant Bubble
October 29, 2012 — Like symbiotic species, a galaxy and its central black hole lead intimately connected lives. The details of this relationship still pose many puzzles for ... > full story -
Monster Galaxy May Have Been Stirred Up by Black-Hole Mischief
October 25, 2012 — Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a whopper of an elliptical galaxy that may have been puffed up by the actions of one or more black holes in its ... > full story -
Revealing a Mini-Supermassive Black Hole
October 24, 2012 — One of the lowest mass supermassive black holes ever observed in the middle of a galaxy has now been identified. The host galaxy is of a type not expected to harbor supermassive black holes, ... > full story -
NASA's NuSTAR Spots Flare from Milky Way's Black Hole
October 23, 2012 — NASA's newest set of X-ray eyes in the sky, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), has caught its first look at the giant black hole parked at the center of our galaxy. The observations ... > full story -
Milky Way's Black Hole Getting Ready for Snack
October 22, 2012 — Get ready for a fascinating eating experience in the center of our galaxy. The event involves a black hole that may devour much of an approaching cloud of dust and gas known as G2. A supercomputer ... > full story -
Astronomers Study 2-Million-Light-Year 'Extragalactic Afterburner'
October 22, 2012 — Blasting over two million lights years from the centre of a distant galaxy is a supersonic jet of material that looks strikingly similar to the afterburner flow of a fighter jet, except in this case ... > full story -
New Surveys Peer Through Dust to Reveal Giant Supermassive Black Holes
October 8, 2012 — Scientists have used cutting-edge infrared surveys of the sky to discover a new population of enormous, rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the early Universe. The black holes were previously ... > full story -
NASA's Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy
October 5, 2012 — NASA's Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from a source toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The outburst, produced by a rare X-ray nova, announced the ... > full story -
Star Discovered Racing Around Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy: Crucial to Revealing Fabric of Space and Time
October 4, 2012 — Astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in a blistering 11-and-a-half years, the shortest known orbit of any ... > full story
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