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Rare intermediate-mass black hole caught devouring star in distant galaxy
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...
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Webb Telescope discovers possible direct collapse black hole in galaxy collision
With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...
Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed
A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...
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Astronomers Discover Star-Shredding Black Holes Hiding in Dusty Galaxies
Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.
What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole
At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...
Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Data Collected By 'Legion' Of Telescopes
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns
An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...