ESO — ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole — Science Release eso2016

ESO — Reaching New Heights in Astronomy Subscription preferences | Unsubscribe | View in browser European Southern Observatory ESO News 1 October 2020 1 October 2020 — ESO Science Release eso2016 ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole With the help of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole when the Universe was less than a billion years old. This is the first time such a close grouping has been seen so soon after the Big Bang and the finding helps us better understand how supermassive black holes, one of which exists at the centre of our Milky Way, formed and grew to their enormous sizes so quickly. It supports the theory that black holes can grow rapidly within large, web-like structures which contain plenty of gas to fuel them. The release, images and videos are available on: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2016/ Kind regards, The ESO Department of Communication 1 October 2020   ESO Announcements ESO Calendar 2021 Now Available 23 September 2020: The 2021 edition of one of our most popular products, the ESO Calendar, is now available and can be purchased from the online ESOshop and in the ESO Supernova Planetarium ... Read more Science operations restarted at Paranal following pause due to the pandemic 18 September 2020: The exceptional circumstances imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic led ESO to suspend science operations at its observatories in late March. We are now pleased to announce that minimal science operations ... Read more   ESOblog Spotting abundant phosphine on Venus — Could the discovery of an element that is key for life on Earth be a first glimpse at our next-door neighbours or a new geological process? Interview with Leonardo Testi 18 September 2020: Earlier this week, we announced the discovery of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus. On Earth, this molecule is made only industrially or by microbes, raising two possibilities: either we've ... Read more Share this newsletter on:     Start receiving this newsletter in your language  Pictures of the Week 28 September 2020 Encircling Antu 21 September 2020 Flowers of stellar wind could be due to stellar companions Upcoming Events Ongoing Café & Kosmos in Munich 6 October 2020: Global Engineering Careers in Science & Space, online event.              ESO Pictures of the Week You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to ESO News. Subscription preferences | Unsubscribe | View in browser Follow us on: European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany