Supermassive black holes can cloak themselves in a cocoon of dust, making them invisible even when they should be bright quasars

Supermassive black holes can cloak themselves in a cocoon of dust, making them invisible even when they should be bright quasars
By Paul M. Sutter

Quasars are the most powerful sources of light in the universe, but sometimes they’re hard to find. A team of astronomers used the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope to find some diamonds in the rough. When gas finds itself in the center of a galaxy, it must come toe-to-toe with a truly terrible monster: a supermassive …

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July 31, 2020 at 09:21PM
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