WISE mission sees skies ablaze with blazars
Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) -- Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission has revealed more than 200 blazars and has the potential to find thousands more.