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Baby stars that defy explanation are 'swarming like bees' around Milky Way's supermassive black holeA new analysis of inexplicably young stars orbiting extremely close to the Milky Way's black hole heart reveals that they orbit around the gigantic structure in a surprisingly organized way, similar to swarming insects like bees.
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Black hole 'traffic jams' are forcing cosmic monsters to collide, new study findsSupermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.
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Explosive black hole flare from the center of our galaxy reconstructed from 'a single flickering pixel' using AI and Einstein's equationsAn explosive flare from the Milky Way's central black hole has been translated from 'a single flickering pixel' into a detailed 3D model using AI and Einstein's general relativity equations.
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Milky Way's monster black hole may be shooting superheated jets into our galaxy, groundbreaking images revealA new polarized light image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has given us our first clear look at the magnetic field of the cosmic juggernaut, which suggests that it may have superheated jets just like even larger black holes.
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1st detection of 'hiccupping' black hole leads to surprising discovery of 2nd black hole orbiting around itScientists found a monster black hole that 'hiccups' every 8.5 days, and a smaller black hole that keeps punching through its accretion disk may be to blame.
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Astronomers find heaviest black hole pair in the universe, and they've been trapped in an endless duel for 3 billion yearsTwo supermassive black holes spotted circling inside a remote 'fossil' galaxy are the heaviest, and the closest, black hole binary ever found.
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Brightest black hole ever discovered devours a sun's-worth of matter every dayA distant quasar that was initially mistaken for a star is actually one of the brightest and fastest-growing black holes ever seen.
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Event Horizon Telescope spies gargantuan energy jets erupting from nearby supermassive black holeAstronomers investigated an active supermassive black hole at the heart of Perseus A using the Event Horizon Telescope, spotting an epic battle between gravity and magnetism.
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How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?Our solar system has been orbiting the Milky Way's black hole heart for 4.6 billion years. But it is hard to pin down exactly how many trips around the galaxy our sun has made during that time.
