Astronomers just got better at finding “bright” black holes

Astronomers have a new way of detecting active black holes in the Universe and measuring how much matter they are sucking in. The technique can be applied to millions of galaxies, searching for bright, supermassive black holes at the center of the galaxies. A mosaic of some of the galaxies involved in the study [Credit: GAMA Survey Team-ICRAR/UWA, and the KiDS and VIKING Teams] Lead author Jessica Thorne, a Ph.D. student at the University of Western Australia node of the...