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Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe

June 25, 2020 sarah Jonas Black Hole, Gemini Observatory

Astronomers have discovered the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF’s NOIRLab. It is also the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name, Pōniuāʻena. The quasar contains a monster black hole, twice the mass of the black hole in the only other quasar found at the same epoch, challenging the current theories of supermassive black hole formation and growth in the early Universe.

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UAH has significant role in LEAP, a mission selected for NASA flight review

March 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Black Hole, CSPAR, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), NASA, Neutron Stars, Polarization, UAH, UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville

In collaboration with Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has a significant role in LEAP – the LargE Area burst Polarimeter – a mission that is one of four proposals approved by NASA for further review.

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The Turbulent Life of Two Supermassive Black Holes Caught in a Galaxy Crash

January 5, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Astronomy, astronomy & astrophysics, Black Hole

An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to create the most detailed image yet of the gas surrounding two supermassive black holes in a merging galaxy.

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Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

January 5, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Black Hole, Galaxies, galaxies evolution

Studies with the VLA indicate that roughly half of the massive black holes in dwarf galaxies are not in the centers of those galaxies. This gives astronomers new insights into the conditions in which similar black holes formed and grew in the early history of the Universe.

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Black Hole Eats Star

November 28, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Black Hole, STAR

Join Melissa Hoffman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory for a tour of one of the most disruptive events in Universe.

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Here’s how a Vanderbilt astrophysicist plans to observe a ‘black hole symphony’ using gravitational wave astronomy

November 18, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Black Hole

New research led by Vanderbilt astrophysicist Karan Jani presents a compelling roadmap for capturing intermediate-mass black hole activity.

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Going Against the Flow Around a Supermassive Black Hole

October 15, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments ALMA telescope, Astronomy, Black Hole, Space, supermassive black hole

At the center of a galaxy called NGC 1068, a supermassive black hole hides within a thick doughnut-shaped cloud of dust and gas. When astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
to study this cloud in more detail, they made an unexpected discovery that could explain why supermassive black holes grew so rapidly in the early Universe.

“Thanks to the spectacular resolution of ALMA, we measured the movement of gas in the inner orbits around the black hole,” explains Violette Impellizzeri of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), working at ALMA in Chile and lead author on a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal. “Surprisingly, we found two disks of gas rotating in opposite directions.”