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NASA’s Chandra Finds Small Galaxies May Buck the Black Hole Trend
NASA’s Chandra Finds Small Galaxies May Buck the Black Hole Trend NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has found that smaller galaxies do not contain supermassive black holes nearly as often as larger galaxies, contradicting a common idea. A study of over 1,600 galaxies collected in more than two decades of Chandra data suggests that only about […]
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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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