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Supermassive black hole winds blowing at 36 million miles per hour can carve up entire galaxies

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A bright quasar, powered by a supermassive black hole, is blasting radiation that blows away clouds of gas in its surroundings to generate winds that reach speeds of about 36 million miles per hour (58 million kilometers per hour). Oh, and the quasar is also almost as old as the universe itself. The discovery, made … Read more

Space Discovery: Astronomers watch a smart supermassive black hole in real time

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Astronomers are witnessing a spectacle never before seen in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers spotted an unusual galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. A sudden bump in the galaxy’s brightness was automatically … Read more