#Cases of black hole mistaken identity
“#Cases of black hole mistaken identity” Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Astronomers have discovered one type of growing supermassive black hole masquerading as another, thanks to a suite of telescopes including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The true identity of these black holes helps solve a long-running mystery in astrophysics. The misidentified…