Examples of merging galaxies containing a heavily obscured growing supermassive black hole observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The top panels show nearby galaxies at ~500 million light-years from ...
Not All Matter Is Equal: Supermassive Black Holes Are ‘Picky Eaters’ During Galaxy Collision ...
Two space telescopes really are better than one. This month NASA released a new image that combines observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory of two ...
In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in a merger, and all three of their central supermassive black holes are ...
Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of material in.
NASA has released a new composite image of two spiral galaxies, NGC 2207 and IC 2163, as they begin a multi-billion-year process of merging into a single celestial entity. This event was captured with ...
Some galaxies in the early universe were absolute powerhouses, churning out stars at rates that would dwarf the Milky Way's ...