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Exotic Galaxy Reveals Tantalizing Tale
The galaxy, dubbed Speca by the researchers, is only the second spiral, as opposed to elliptical, galaxy known to produce large, powerful jets of subatomic…
Researchers Detail How A Distant Black Hole Devoured A Star
“Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year,” said David Burrows, professor of…
Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water
“The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it's producing this huge mass of water,” said Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion…
Movement of black holes powers the universe's brightest lights
Not only do they spin, they can also move laterally across their host galaxy. And according to astrophysicists at Brigham Young University, both types of…
Astronomers discover universe's most distant quasar
This brilliant and rare beacon, powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, is by far the brightest object yet found from a time…
X-ray telescope finds new voracious black holes in early universe
This discovery from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the…