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Scientists may have just discovered 300 of the rarest black holes in the universeHow black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potential 'missing link black holes', could help to unravel it.
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious flares near the Milky Way's monster black holeSagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to find out why.
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'We were amazed': Astronomers discover oldest, biggest black hole jet in the known universe — and there may be moreAstronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early universe.
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Astronomers catch black holes 'cooking' their own meals in bizarre, endless feeding cycleBlack holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a new study. It suggests many such cosmic beasts effectively "cook" their own meals.
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Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than expected.
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'Impossible' black holes detected by James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation — if this ultra-rare form of matter existsObservations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too big, too fast. New research points to a strange form of dark matter as a possible culprit.
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Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holesblack-holes -
Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied."
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Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around itScientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence
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