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According to research, black holes eat faster than previously thought
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is changing the way astrophysicists think about supermassive black holes' eating habits. Previously, physicists hypothesised that black holes ate slowly, but recent simulations show that black holes feed far faster than popular thinking predicts. T
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Research reveals black holes eat faster than previously expected
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A new study led by Northwestern University is redefining how astrophysicists think about the eating habits of supermassive black holes.
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New discovery sheds light on very early supermassive black holes
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
One of the most extreme galaxies known to exist in the very early Universe has a fast-expanding black hole, according to astronomers from the Universities of Texas and Arizona. New information about the creation of the first supermassive black holes is revealed by the discovery of the galaxy
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Massive fuel-hungry black holes feed off intergalactic gas: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Research led by the University of Southampton has revealed how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are feeding off gas clouds which reach them by travelling hundreds of thousands of light years from one galaxy to another.
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Developing telescope mirrors in new way could sharpen our view of universe
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): Researchers have created a new method for fabricating the high-precision, ultrathin mirrors needed for high-performance x-ray telescopes using femtosecond laser pulses. The method might assist advance the capabilities of space-based x-ray telescopes that ar
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Detected in early universe, the Massive black holes inside of dying galaxi
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 28 (ANI): According to a database used by an international team of astronomers, a combination of observations from the best telescopes in the world, including the Subaru Telescope, to detect the signal from the active supermassive black holes of dying galaxies in the ear
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Feeding patterns of black holes reveal their size: Study
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Illinois [US], August 13 (ANI): A new study has revealed that the flickering in the brightness observed in actively feeding supermassive black holes is related to their mass. The feeding patterns of black holes offer insight into their size, researchers have reported.
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Indigenously designed, developed spectrograph can locate faint light from
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Indian scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies in a very young universe, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cos
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Zooming in on the origins of fast radio bursts
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Astronomers have peered into the home galaxies of fast radio bursts, ruling out supermassive black holes as a cause and bringing us a step closer to understanding the origins of these mysterious signals from outer space.
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Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holes
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 2 (ANI): Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive black holes grow by swallowing up not only interstellar
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