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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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'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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Scientists discover giant galaxy 32 times bigger than Earth's — and they named it 'trouble'Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or "trouble," as the team struggles to understand the physics behind it.
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'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to lifeThe first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at usThe newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.
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'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study saysA "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes.
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The fabric of the universe is 'lopsided', huge gravitational wave mapping study findsA new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and lopsided picture of the universe.
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Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a type of planet never seen beforeAstronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly — the immense gravity exerted by such cosmic behemoths.
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Scientists followed a mysterious signal — and found 2 black holes gorging on something like never beforeWhile investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive black holes with a truly monstrous appetite.
