Supermassive Black Holes – Page 14 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Graphic on jet emission, water molecule disk, and central black hole

On the Origin of Galactic Jets

Posted on January 9, 1997March 28, 2017

An extraordinary cosmic laboratory 21 million light-years away is providing radio astronomers their best opportunity yet to decipher the mysteries of the ultra-powerful engines at the hearts of many galaxies and quasars.

Tremendous Mass Concentration in Strange Galaxy Revealed by VLBA

Posted on January 11, 1995April 4, 2017

A dense whirling mass orbiting what almost certainly is a black hole of truly Brobdingnagian proportions has been discovered at the heart of an active galaxy some 21 million light years from Earth.

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