"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But Virgil transforms into the host of a heavily obscured supermassive black hole, pouring out immense ...

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"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." ...

A new image of M87 shows and confirms for the first time the feeding ring and jet of its supermassive black hole.

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After the January 2025 Moss Landing battery storage fire, researchers found nickel, manganese and cobalt particles raining ...