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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany were also involved in the study. The findings are published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Every galaxy has a supermassive ...

The discovery has been published in Nature Astronomy. The researchers believe ASKAP J1839-075, is a "pulsar", a high-energy neutron star that releases short bursts of radio waves. But conventional ...

Astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black hole in the infrared, using the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer. Active galactic ...