#smbh — Public Fediverse posts
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#TachyonBeam #astronomy #ESA #SMBH #quasars #Euclid
An article published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" reports the discovery of 31 new primordial quasars, including the two oldest known so far. A team of researchers used observations conducted with ESA's Euclid space telescope as part of the Euclid Wide Survey to find quasars we see as they were when the universe was no more than 800 million years old.
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The supermassive black holes at the centre of Galaxies are planet factories, churning out millions of Gas Giants.
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#TachyonBeam #astronomy #SMBH #SagittariusA
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports evidence of a cosmic wind emanating from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Mark D. Gorski and Lena Murchikova of Northwestern University used observations with the ALMA radio telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a high-quality map of the cold carbon monoxide gas surrounding Sagittarius A*.
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#TachyonBeam #astronomy #JWST #SMBH
Two articles, one published in the journal "Nature" and one in the "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", report different aspects of a study of the supermassive black hole cataloged as Abell 2744-QSO1, or simply QSO1, indicating that it's older than its host galaxy. A team of researchers used observations with the James Webb Space Telescope to study QSO1 and measured its mass at about 50 million times the Sun's.
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#TachyonBeam #astronomy #galaxies #SMBH #AGN
A rare example of three active galactic nuclei in three merging galaxies has been discovered using two radio telescopes: the VLA and the VLBA. The triple system is cataloged as J1218/1219+1035. This targeted study, conducted by a team of researchers at various radio frequencies, has identified only the third case of a triple active galactic nucleus, the first confirmed through radio observations.
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#ESA:
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Flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds
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"Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted an extraordinary blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second."9.12.2025
#AGN #BlackHole #JAXA #NGC3783 #Röntenstrahlung #SchwarzesLoch #SMBH #SRON #Weltraumteleskop #XMM #XRISM #Xray
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@setiinstitute is this Galaxy similar to our, with its new found barred structure? Will the Milky Way have a similar ring around its monstrous SMBH core?
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#UHH:
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Entdeckung eines neuen „Little Red Dots“ in einer sehr massereichen Umgebung
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"Forschende .. haben ein sogenanntes Little Red Dot im frühen Universum entdeckt. Diese Klasse von Objekten ist erst seit Kurzem bekannt und könnte neue Einblicke in die Entstehung sowie Entwicklung supermassereicher Schwarzer Löcher geben .."17.9.2025
#Astronomie #COSMOS3D #Hamburg #JWST #LittleRedDot #Quasar #Rotverschiebung #SchwarzesLoch #SMBH #Weltraumteleskop
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Cosmology: The Moon is our Future
The limits of cosmology, by Joseph Silk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08066#Cosmology #LunarAstronomy #LunarTelescope #LunarTelescopes #teslescope #telescopes #radioastronomy #radiotelescope #radioteslescopes #galaxies #Moon #exoplanets #astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #SMBH #blackholes #bigbang #universe #science
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Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-an-active-galactic-center/#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #space #science #Hubble #galaxy #galaxies #blackhole #SMBH
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Extreme nuclear transients: a new study using space and ground-based data from NASA, ESA, and other institutions describes three extreme examples of supermassive black holes feasting on massive stars.
☑️ https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/astrophysics/3-black-holes-caught-eating-massive-stars-in-nasa-data/
☑️ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt0074 -
This is the Million Earth star system, and you can see how useful Super Massive Black Holes can be.
I would imagine the local 'gods' would be fighting over our one at the centre of the Milky Way....
https://planetplanet.net/2018/06/01/the-million-earth-solar-system/
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Six years since ALMA crucially helped the Event Horizon Telescope take the first image of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy… you can relive it all below!
https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/astronomers-capture-first-image-of-a-black-hole/
#ALMA #AtacamaLargeMillimeterSubmillimetreArray #AtacamaLargeMillimeterArray #EHT #EventHorizonTelescope #BH #BlackHole #SuperMassiveBlackHole #SMBH #EHTBlackHole #RealBlackHole
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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite galaxy of our own, and like ours, it has a Super Massive Black Hole at its centre, holding the whole show together
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/second-closest-supermassive-black-hole/
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An article published in the journal Nature Astronomy reports the results of a study of seven galaxy clusters that contain various supermassive black holes that offers evidence that outbursts generated at these black holes help cool the gas they feed on. Outbursts in the form of jets from the supermassive black holes cool the gas by forming thin filaments. Some gas will eventually flow back toward those black holes, triggering more outbursts,
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2025/01/28/supermassive-black-holes-cook-their-own-meals/
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#astronomy #JWST #DwarfGalaxies #SMBH #LID568
An article published in the journal "Nature Astronomy" reports the results of the study of the dwarf galaxy cataloged as LID-568, which has at its center a supermassive black hole that is devouring materials at a rate that is more than 40 times faster than its theoretical limits.
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I don't know why such unimaginably large and powerful things instil a deep dread in me like no other object can but it fascinates me all the less.
https://www.space.com/largest-known-black-hole-discovered-through-gravitational-lensing
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Beautiful cover arts for the latest issues of Nature and Nature Astronomy
Credits:
1. Erik Wernquist/Dylan Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration)/Martijn Oei
2. Carl Knox, OzGrav - Swinburne University of Technology. Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Nature #NatureAstronomy #cover #art #covertart #Porphyrion #SMBH #blackhole #blackholes #Cosmology #CosmicWeb #Universe #pulsar #pulsars #ASKAP #radiotelescope #NeutronStar #WhiteDwarf #star #stars #science #STEM #Astrodon
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#astronomy #cosmology #galaxies #JWST #SMBH
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of a study of primordial galaxies that seemed too massive for their age, concluding that it was actually the light generated by the activity of their supermassive black holes that created a wrong impression.
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Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit UZH-Beteiligung schlägt eine neuartige Methode vor, um supermassereiche Schwarze Löcher in den Zentren von Galaxien zu entdecken. Als Beobachtungstechnik nutzen die Wissenschaftler die Analyse von Gravitationswellen kleiner nahegelegener Schwarzer Löcher. Eine Medienmitteilung der Universität Zürich.
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https://www.raumfahrer.net/uzh-kleine-schwarze-loecher-koennen-die-existenz-grosser-schwarzer-loecher-offenbaren/5.8.2024
#Astrophysik #Astronomie #ESA #Gravitationswellen #LISA #SchwarzesLoch #SMBH #UZH #zurich
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#astronomy #JWST #SMBH #quasar
A new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the quasar cataloged as RX J1131-1231, or simply RX J1131. About six billion light-years away from Earth, it's visible in three different copies, recognizable in the upper part of the bright ring in the center of the image, due to a gravitational lensing effect generated by a galaxy between it and Earth.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/07/09/a-quasar-tripled-by-a-gravitational-lens/
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#astronomy #quasar #SMBH #reionization #CosmicDawn
An article published in the journal "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the discovery of the most distant pair of merging quasars known. A team of researchers combined observations from the Subaru Telescope with the Gemini North Telescope to find traces of this pair of quasars that we see as they were about 900 million years after the Big Bang.
Read the details at https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/06/20/first-pair-of-merging-quasars-observed-at-cosmic-dawn/
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An article accepted for publication in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" reports the results of the observation of a new activity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy cataloged as SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 and called "simply" SDSS1335+0728. A team of researchers used observations conducted with various instruments to observe an increase in this galaxy's brightness.
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#astronomy #galaxies #SMBH #DeathStar
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports a study of supermassive black holes that emit jets of energy that are aimed in different directions over time.
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An article published in the journal "The Astrophysical Journal Letters" reports the results of observations of a structure similar to a chimney which functions as a sort of vent from which hot gas coming from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, escapes.
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#astronomy #JWST #SMBH An article published in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" reports evidence of the ongoing merger of two supermassive black holes in a pair of galaxies cataloged as ZS7 in the early universe.
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#astronomy #quasar #SMBH #JWST
An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of observations of primordial quasars that indicate that supermassive black holes form from "seeds" that are very massive and grow quickly. A team of researchers used observations conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope as part of the EIGER project to detect the faint light of the stars surrounding three of those quasars.
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#astronomy #Cosmos11142 #SMBH #JWST #AGN
An article published in the journal "Nature" reports the observation of very strong winds coming from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy Cosmos-11142 which inhibited star formation within it. A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect the movement of cold neutral gas pushed at such a speed that it swept away the gas in the galaxy and thus prevented the formation of new stars.