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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 ...
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 ...
Yes, It’s Possible to Safely Jump Into a Black Hole, Scientists Say
“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...
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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.
JWST uncovers hidden black holes devouring stars in dusty galaxies
Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...
Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date
A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
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Astronomers detect the most massive black hole merger ever
Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole ...
A look at the collision that created the biggest black hole merger yet
The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...