An ancient, fast-feeding quasar is breaking the rules of how black holes consume matter and generate galaxy-shaping jets.
A supermassive black hole roughly 11.6 billion light-years from Earth is consuming matter at 13 times the theoretical maximum rate, forcing astrophysicists to reconsider how these cosmic giants grew ...
Back in 2000, a team of physicists led by Lijun Wang at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, USA, pulled off a mind-bending experiment. They fired a precisely shaped laser pulse through a special ...
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Scientists have discovered a black hole that appears to be growing at around 13 times the expected cosmic "speed limit". A team of astronomers in Japan used a large optical-infrared telescope to ...