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Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universeScientists watched as a three-quasar system merged in a supercomputer simulation of the universe to birth a black hole 300 billion times as massive as the sun.
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The 10 most massive black hole findings from 2022From "rogue" black holes cruising the cosmos to one of the oldest black hole ancestors in this universe, this year's findings truly sucked us in.
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The oldest, brightest black holes in the universe were born from violent gas attacks, new study suggestsResearchers found that streams of cold gas could create 'seeds' of quasars — ultraluminous supermassive black holes — in the early universe, solving a decades-old mystery.
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Massive, unknown radio structure detected around the universe's brightest quasarTwo previously unknown radio structures have been detected around quasar 3C273, the first and brightest quasar ever detected.
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Ultra-rare black hole ancestor detected at the dawn of the universeScientists may have detected the first known 'transitioning red quasar' in the universe, dating to just 750 million years after the Big Bang.
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Supermassive black holes could host giant, swirling gas 'tsunamis'Could gas escaping the gravitational grasp of supermassive black holes be forming "tsunamis" in space?
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NASA detects rare 'double quasar' in ancient corner of the universeAstronomers just detected two pairs of rare 'double quasars' about 10 billion light-years away. They are the oldest in the known universe.
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Universe's oldest known quasar discovered 13 billion light-years awayAstronomers have found the farthest known source of radio emissions in the universe: a galaxy-swallowing supermassive black hole.
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A giant black hole suddenly went dark, and no one knows whyIn 2018, one of the brightest X-ray lights in the sky went dark, and scientists still aren't sure why.
