US EditionEuclid Reveals What Wakes Sleeping Black Holes
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Euclid Reveals What Wakes Sleeping Black Holes
The European Space Agency's Euclid telescope has delivered an unprecedented set of observations of one million galaxies that shows that galaxy collisions play a dominant role in awakening supermassive black holes from their sleep. Using revolutionary AI-powered analysis methods, astronomers discovered that merging galaxies contain up to six times more active black holes than isolated galaxies, with the most luminous black holes found almost excl…
In the middle of every big galaxy there is a supermassive black hole. Most of the time, it is invisible to us. But sometimes it wakes up brutally and emits a huge amount of light, which surpasses the brightness of hundreds of billions of stars. It is then called "sun...
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