Saturday, January 17, 2026

A New Census of Dwarf Galaxies Shows More Massive Black Holes than Previously Thought

Combined observations of the dwarf galaxy Centaurus A. Credit:ESO/WFI/MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al./NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al.

A new census of more than 8,000 galaxies finds active black holes rising in frequency with galaxy mass, jumping sharply in galaxies similar in mass to the Milky Way.



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