Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the universe?

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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 black hole growth in the early Universe, challenging conventional physics with findings of super-Eddington accretion rates. A recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics sheds light on how supermassive black holes, with masses billions of times that of [...]

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Black hole quiz: How supermassive is your knowledge of the universe?

Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe. These hyper-dense celestial phenomena exert gravitational forces so powerful that not even light can escape their pull, and time itself is distorted in their orbit.(Image credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Coe, J. Anderson, and R. van der Marel (STScI))Physicist Karl Schwarzschild accidentally discovered the concept of black holes in 1916 while working on a solution to Einstein's general theory of…

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Since the James Webb space telescope helped visualize them, the first supermassive black holes have been quite an enigma. Scientists have seen that in the early Universe there were supermassive black holes. This presented a problem because at the dawn of the cosmos there were no stars so big as to give rise to these objects, and that was the only explanation we had for their existence. However, a new hypothesis could help define how these black …

Desde que el telescopio espacial James Webb ayudó a visualizarlos, los primeros agujeros negros supermasivos han sido todo un enigma. Los científicos han visto que en el Universo temprano hubo agujeros negros supermasivos. Esto presentaba un problema porque en los albores del cosmos no había estrellas tan grandes como para dar origen a estos objetos, y esa era la única explicación que teníamos a su existencia. Pese a ello, una nueva hipótesis po…

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