Entries by Amanda Schut

Astronomers discovered a “ultramassive” black hole that is 10,000 times more massive than the black hole at the center of our galaxy

In 2009, a team of astronomers used the Swift Spacecraft to measure the luminosity output of a distant Quasar, named S5 0014+81, and  measure the mass of the central black hole. To their surprise, they found out that this black hole contains actually 40 billion solar masses, that is 10,000 times more massive than the […]

16 May 2017 by

Black Hole Hunting in Arizona – by Freek Roelofs and Sara Issaoun

On 27 March 2017 we left Radboud University to travel to Tucson, Arizona, where we were welcomed by the hot desert sun. Our mission: to observe supermassive black holes at the Sub-Millimeter Telescope (SMT) on Mount Graham in Arizona. The SMT, a 10-m dish owned and operated by the Arizona Radio Observatory, is part of […]

8 May 2017 by