Tag: Supermassive black holes

  • Nation & World

    Just-so black holes

    New findings advance insight on formation of supermassive black holes in the early epochs of the universe.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Planets form in cosmic maelstrom

    At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets still can form in this cosmic maelstrom.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Black hole came from shredded galaxy

    Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests that the black hole was once at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy.

    3 minutes