Artist's conceptions of the most - distant
supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.
«Found: The most distant
supermassive black hole ever observed: Black hole discovered from just 690 million years after the Big Bang.»
Astronomers have discovered the oldest
supermassive black hole ever found — a behemoth that grew to 800 million times the mass of the sun when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age, a new study finds.
Representing an area called Chandra Deep Field - South, the deepest X-ray image ever shows the highest concentration of
supermassive black holes ever seen.
Not exact matches
The process will likely shrink the small
black holes into an
ever - tighter clump around the
supermassive black hole as time goes on, says astrophysicist Abraham Loeb of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
«Infant stars found surprisingly near galaxy's
supermassive black hole: Earliest phase of star formation
ever observed in highly hostile environment.»
New research led by astrophysicists at York University has revealed the fastest winds
ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths near a
supermassive black hole.
«We believe we have observed two
supermassive black holes in closer proximity than
ever before,» Suvi Gezari, assistant professor of astronomy at the university and a co-author of a new study, published last week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, said, in a statement released Monday.
If the discovery is confirmed, the invisible behemoth will rank as the second largest
black hole ever seen in the Milky Way after the
supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A * that is anchored at the very centre of the galaxy.
Astronomers have gotten their deepest glimpse into the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, peering closer to the
supermassive black hole at the Galaxy's core then
ever before.
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second - year master's student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor at the University of Tokyo, successfully captured a detailed image of high - density molecular gas around an active
supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called NGC 1097 at the highest sensitivity
ever achieved.
The main goal of BlackHoleCam and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is to make the first
ever image of Sagittarius A *, the
supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy.
This is the most distant quasar — a
supermassive black hole surrounded by a disk of gas —
ever identified and it will help astronomers to better understand exactly how
black holes grew when the universe was first forming.