Cosmic Ignition: When the Universe First Lit Up Studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars to illuminate an early moment when galaxies could first be observed. Dominika Ďurovčíková, a PhD candidate at MIT, is on a quest to understand ... 09/7/2024 - 8:17 pm | View Link
New Evidence Suggests the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Formed Through a Merger New research indicates that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, likely formed through the merger of two black holes. The study, published in Nature Astronomy in ... 09/7/2024 - 8:13 am | View Link
Scientists uncover the origins of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole Astronomers have long been puzzled by the origins of supermassive black holes—enormous objects found at the center of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way. These black holes can weigh millions ... 09/6/2024 - 11:42 pm | View Link
Massive merger: Study reveals evidence for origin of supermassive black hole at galaxy's center The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes—which can weigh in at more than a million times the mass of the sun and reside in the center of most galaxies—remain one of the great mysteries of ... 09/6/2024 - 6:41 am | View Link
Dark matter could have driven the growth of early supermassive black holes The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps finding supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the earl. They’re in active galactic nuclei seen only 500,000 years after the Big Bang. This was long before ... 08/31/2024 - 12:10 pm | View Link