ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black hole Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array […]
Supermassive black holes shortly after the Big Bang: How to seed them They are billions of times larger than our Sun: how is it possible that, as recently observed, supermassive black holes were already present […]
The turbulent life of two supermassive black holes caught in a galaxy crash An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to create the most detailed image yet of the gas […]
Blazar variability Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are accreting material. These AGN emit jets of charged particles that move at speeds close to that of light, […]
Supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of […]
How did supermassive black holes grow so fast? Black holes in the early universe pose a bit of a problem. Based on observations from telescopes on Earth and in space, we know that some black […]