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Supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to monstrous sizes
"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.
Supermassive Black Holes Defy Physics to Become Cosmic Titans
Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...
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The surprising link between quasars, black holes and the universe's cosmic dawn
The cosmic dawn, a period less than a billion years after the Big Bang, holds one of modern astrophysics' greatest mysteries: ...
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“We Hit the Jackpot!” Groundbreaking Discovery Reveals Supermassive Black Holes May Be “Challenging the Limits of Physics”
New research reveals supermassive black holes, billions of times the mass of the sun, formed much more rapidly than ...
Quasi-periodic eruptions from eRO-QPE2 are remarkably stable, study finds
An international team of astronomers has inspected long-term evolution of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) from a QPE source designated eRO-QPE2. The study found that QPEs from this source are ...
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Space scientists reveal brightest gamma explosion ever
ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli The images captured have shown unprecedented details of GRBs X-ray astronomer Dr Phil Evans, who leads the University of Leicester's involvement in Swift, said ...
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Nebula Pa 30 (IMAGE)
A background point source is seen westward of the CS in the XMM-Newton contour map. (c) The 2.1 m KPNO [O iii] image, which we have stacked and rebinned from individual frames to enhance the low ...