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Colossal black hole 36 billion times the mass of our sun is one of the largest ever seen in the universeWe know little about how young galaxies and their black holes grew up.
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Scientists use Stephen Hawking theory to propose 'black hole morsels' — strange, compact objects that could reveal new physicsViolent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could pave the way to unlocking new physics, a study claims.
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James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, looking 'as far back as you can practically go'Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, and found that it may contain the earliest known black hole in the universe.
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Paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century, study claimsAn astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send a nano-sized spacecraft to the heart of a black hole.
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Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggestsA beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.
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See the universe's rarest type of black hole slurp up a star in stunning animationAstronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation.
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Scientists detect most massive black hole merger ever — and it birthed a monster 225 times as massive as the sunNew gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ever. It could lead to evidence of an extremely rare type of black hole.
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This supermassive black hole is eating way too quickly — and 'burping' at near-light speedsUsing the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.
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'Artificial intelligence is not a miracle cure': Nobel laureate raises questions about AI-generated image of black hole spinning at the heart of our galaxyResearchers have used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. But some experts are skeptical of the results.
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