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Named MoM-BH*-1, it shines like 100 billion Suns yet carries the light signature of a single star. MIT researchers say the best explanation is a black hole cloaked in a solar-system-sized shell of hydrogen - and that Webb's 'little red dots' may be the same thing.
A new survey of 31 ancient quasars includes two all-time record-breakers that shone 13 billion years ago. Euclid did in a year what took all prior telescopes over a decade.
Using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, researchers detected two layered wind components moving at 10% and 30% the speed of light from a 2-billion-solar-mass black hole 11 billion light-years away - the most distant ultra-fast outflow ever caught in a non-lensed quasar.
J0439+1634, a supermassive black hole active just 850 million years after the Big Bang, flickers like a candle flame - and its surprisingly flat, organized accretion disk is challenging what we thought we knew about early black hole growth.
A 300-hour Very Large Array programme, the first systematic radio study of its kind, finds that accretion flow - not jet presence - is the variable that controls how tidal disruption events appear across all wavelengths, overturning a decade-old two-category model.
New JWST observations of NGC 4696 have traced, for the first time, how galaxy-spanning filaments of cooling gas connect to a rotating circumnuclear disk that funnels material toward a supermassive black hole - closing a long-standing gap in black hole physics.
Using five years of ALMA radio data, researchers at Northwestern University have confirmed the first direct evidence of a wind blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's center - resolving one of astrophysics' longest-standing predictions.
