Dr. Sarah Burke-Spolaor and team investigate a missing supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy cluster Abell 2261.
The team used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope to scope out an area in the center of a distant galaxy cluster where a supermassive black hole should be—but isn’t.
Read more on their discovery across various news channels here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/astronomy-black-hole-abell.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/on-the-hunt-for-a-missing-giant-black-hole.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/55562870