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Quick Look: On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole (12-17-2020)
Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
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Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh billions of times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
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Quick Look: The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets (10-14-2020)
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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Tour: The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets (10-14-2020)
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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-- The Recipe for Powerful Quasar Jets
Scientists have studied more than 700 quasars -- rapidly growing supermassive black holes -- to isolate the factors that determine why some of these black holes launch jets and others do not.
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Quick Look: Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job (08-03-2020)
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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Tour: Black Hole Fails to Do Its Job (08-03-2020)
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster.
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A Quick Look at Cases of Black Hole Mistaken Identity (07-15-2020)
Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another.
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Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another.
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