Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...
The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised ... lurking in plain sight - hiding behind dust and gas rendering them invisible to normal telescopes.
Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.
Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe ... are lurking in plain sight - hiding behind dust and gas rendering them invisible to normal telescopes.
"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...
Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...