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Supermassive black holes have masses of more than a million suns – but their growth has slowed as the universe aged
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Fan Zou is a graduate student at Penn State University while W. Neil Brandt is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State.Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape
Supermassive black holes grow surprisingly quickly, study suggests
There were more monstrous black holes in the early universe than previously thought, a new study suggests.A new way to predict the masses of the largest supermassive black holes believed to lurk at the heart of most galaxies has shown that these cosmic titans may grow faster than previously believed. The results, from novel computer modeling
ALMA Detects Supermassive Black Hole in Early Star-Forming Galaxy
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have detected a rapidly growing supermassive black hole in COS-87259, a galaxy that forms stars at a rate 1,000 times that of our own Milky Way Galaxy and contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust. This Hubble image shows NGC 5033, a spiral galaxy
2K and Supermassive Games Officially Announce The Quarry, Trailer Released
by William D'Angelo , posted 14 hours ago / 855 ViewsPublisher 2K and developer Supermassive Games have officially announced horror game, The Quarry, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. It will Launch on June 10. "The Quarry is breaking new ground across interactive storytelling and technology to create a truly visceral…
Jets from the supermassive black hole created massive bubbles at Milky Way’s center
There are two enormous bubbles of scorching gas expanding from the core of the Milky Way has into near-galactic space. First seen in 2020 by the X-ray telescope eRosita, the bubbles extend far above and below the center of our galaxy. These bubbles resemble the Fermi bubbles and microwave haze—a fog of charged particles roughly…
Supermassive Games trademarks another game
Here's hoping it's not about quarry-tine. Supermassive Games, developer of Until Dawn and the ongoing The Dark Pictures anthology series, has seemingly trademarked a new logo and title for yet another undisclosed project.The news follows the discovery earlier this month of trademarked logos and titles for five future Dark Pictures projects, but this seems to be…
Astronomers have observed the central regions of Henize 2-10, a dwarf starburst galaxy previously reported to have a central massive black hole, at optical wavelengths using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. A pullout of the central region of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 traces an outflow, or…
Mellow supermassive black holes act as major factories of high-energy cosmic particles
High energetic cosmic particles such as x-rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos are believed to be created by powerful cosmic-ray accelerators or surrounding environments in the Universe. Yet, their origins remain unknown. Active supermassive black holes are believed to act as Active galactic nuclei (AGN), the most promising emitters of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos. But,…