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Supermassive black holes

Image: The main image shows a close-up of a quasar and a jet, like the one actually in PJ352-52. In: X-ray data from the Chandra Space Telescope Credit: X-ray: NASA / CXO / JPL / T. Connor; Optical: Twin Observatory / NOIRLAB / NSF / AURA; Infrared: WM Observatory; Image: NASA / CXC / M. WEISS

A giant jet ejected from a black hole in the early universe

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A black hole emits jets of particles. Image: depositphotos.com

For the first time, a neutrino particle has been detected that came to us from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole

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A group of international researchers, including from the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute, discovered the particle that arrived following an emission event that occurred in 2019
Imaging of the quasar J1342+0928, the active galactic halo that contains at its center a supermassive black hole, with a mass 800 million times that of our Sun, that is gobbling up a lot of material from a hot disk surrounding it. Source: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science.

The most distant supermassive black hole to date has been discovered

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A simulation of a supermassive black hole with an accretion disk around it. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

A method that significantly improves the measurement of the mass of black holes in the centers of galaxies

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Artist's rendering of a supermassive black hole tearing apart and swallowing a nearby star. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

How black holes devour stars

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A simulation of a supermassive black hole swallowing gas and matter into it. Imaging: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The disappearing black holes

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