At the heart of that galaxy was a black hole spewing energy equivalent to the output of more than a trillion stars. “The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions,” said Martijn Oei ...
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Astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole in the early universe that is starving its galaxy to death. The ...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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An issue called the final parsec problem detailed the theoretical difficulty in bringing supermassive black holes close ...