Black holes may grow quietly alongside galaxies even without violent mergers

October 1, 2026 · 2:00 pm 2 sources

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• Citizen science project recruits volunteers to search for undiscovered black holes
  Phys.org · October 1, 2026 14:00
  Cosmic detectives are being called on for an interstellar mission to hunt down thousands of invisible black holes lurking in our own backyard. Space scientists from the University of Southampton need amateur astronomers to search for signs that might locate them.
• Black holes may grow quietly alongside galaxies even without violent mergers
  Phys.org · October 2, 2026 19:20
  Astronomers analyzed 2,435 galaxies hosting actively feeding black holes using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Among them, they identified 546 "bulgeless" galaxies—systems with little or no central stellar bulge. Their paper, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal…