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The Universe’s Brightest Lights Have Some Dark Origins
The Universe’s Brightest Lights Have Some Dark Origins The universe’s brightest lights come from regions around black holes at the centers of galaxies, which are detected by satellites like NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. These bright sources are often blazars, a type of active galaxy powered by supermassive black holes that have jets of particles […]
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Flickering X-rays shed light on supermassive black holes
Flickering X-rays shed light on supermassive black holes Flickering X-rays from the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope have provided insight into the relationship between galaxies and their supermassive black holes, shedding light on how the universe developed over the past 14 billion years. Researchers analyzed 15 years of data collected by Chandra to reconstruct the […]
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Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where − and where not − to look for life in the universe
Jets from powerful black holes can point astronomers toward where − and where not − to look for life in the universe Black holes, like the one in this illustration, can spray powerful jets. S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF), CC BY-SA One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar – a spinning […]
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