Astronomers have captured a supermassive black hole rip apart a wandering star and shoot out a spectacular jet – the first time the aftermath of a black hole destruction has been observed. Scientists tracked the tidal disruption event (TDE) with radio and infrared telescopes in a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299 – some […]
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Space Photos of the Week: Home Is Where the Supermassive Black Hole Is
At the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy is a big, black hole—and NASA just snapped a photo of it. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a59456bf11e325008172bc4/master/pass/SPoW_Jan08_2018_03.jpg
Galaxies stop making stars earlier if they host supermassive black holes
A supermassive black hole can mass more than a million times that of our Sun; these astronomical entities seem to lie at the center of all massive galaxies. They’ve been theorized as the gatekeepers to galaxy growth and star formation for a while now, as they pull in all the cold gases in a galaxy […]