supermassive black holes

Black hole spotted blasting winds at 130 million mph

This supermassive black hole flung out matter at 134 million mph: 'On a scale almost too big to imagine'

But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the magnetic field writhing around is millions of times stronger, so when its lines snap and reconnect, the resulting flare is an eruption of almost unfathomable power.

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Supermassive black hole belches 30,000-miles-per-second winds

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Black Hole Caught Blasting Matter into Space at 130 Million MPH

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Black hole ejects matter at 20% light speed in sun-like magnetic event

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

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What NASA says would happen if Earth got too close to a black hole

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...

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James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy's monster black hole fire out a flare

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

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It's the JWST's turn to look for an intermediate mass black hole

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow it up

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

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How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get So Big?

Some galaxies could grow so large by consuming one star from a binary system. April 8, 2012 -- For years, astronomers have puzzled over the diet needed to bulk up supermassive black holes – ...

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