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How do some black holes get so big? The James Webb Space Telescope may have an answer

Often the most exciting black hole news surrounds the biggest, baddest and most violent voids we can imagine. I’m talking about supermassive black holes with masses billions of times that of the Sun; Called quasars, they eat away at the matter around them and spew out the excess so aggressively that they create patterns of… Read More »

Mystery of vast ‘cosmic ORCs’ (strange radio circles spanning entire galaxies) may be solved

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of cosmic ORCs, or “strange radio circles” as they are officially known, that are 10 times as wide as the Milky Way and large enough to encompass entire galaxies. A team of astronomers led by University of California San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Alison Coil pointed… Read More »