supermassive black hole

His goal over the next decade is to determine how the spin of a supermassive black hole evolves over time.

The closer matter gets to a supermassive black hole, the more gravity compresses the matter.

Previously, only the supermassive black hole there was thought to be able to produce these " hypervelocity " stars.

This illustration depicts how the catastrophic destruction of a star that wandered too close to a supermassive black hole may have occurred.

shows that the supermassive black hole in M81 feeds just like stellar mass black holes, with masses of only about ten times that of the Sun.

It is a supermassive black hole containing the mass of four million suns crushed down into a single point by its own gravity.

A supermassive black hole blasting is destroying everything in its path with a deadly beam of energy.

Near the center of the X-ray ghost is a radio point sourceindicating the presence of a growing supermassive black hole.

The heart of our spiral galaxy is cluttered with stars, dust and gas, and at its very center, a supermassive black hole.

The third scenario posits that an existing supermassive black hole, contrary to expectation, exerts a strong influence on its host galaxy.

This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.

If our galaxy harbored a supermassive black hole, it was quiet, lacking the belches of energy seen from others.

It consists of a dusty, doughnut-shaped cloud of gas and dust that feeds a central supermassive black hole.

A supermassive black hole may have been observed in the process of being hurled from its parent galaxy at high speed.

This illustration depicts a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.

A close encounter with another star put the doomed star (orange circle) on a path that took it near a supermassive black hole.

Quasars are the very active centers of galaxies though to surround the central supermassive black hole.

Since the mid 1990s, astronomers have known that every galaxy in the universe harbors a supermassive black hole at its center.

An image released by NASA shows Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.

These results help explain how a supermassive black hole can alter the evolution of its host galaxy.

The supermassive black hole at its core blows bubbles of radio-wave emitting material into the surrounding cluster gas.

The study of M87? s supermassive black hole will be detailed in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

This image of Centaurus A shows a spectacular new view of a supermassive black hole's power.

Normally, each galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its centre.

At its center, nearly every large galaxy contains a supermassive black hole surrounded by a big bulge of stars.

Matter funnels into the supermassive black hole from a ring of material circling around it and called an accretion disk.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captures Sagittarius A*, the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

each galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its centre.

Does our galaxy have a central supermassive black hole, and are we in danger of falling in?

And if there is a supermassive black hole, what we need to assume is that it's a black hole on a diet.

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