so the star core begins to collapse in on itself. If its mass collapses into an infinitely small point, a black hole is born. Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into ...
MIT astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge.
For the first time, scientists witness a supermassive black hole releasing jets of material at immense speeds, offering a glimpse into jet formation and propagation in active galactic nuclei.