Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
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Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...
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The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...