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Universe's oldest X-ray-spitting quasar could reveal how the biggest black holes were bornThe newly identified quasar, observed 13.7 billion light-years away by the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be an example of a heavy black hole "seed" in the early universe.
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Scientists just proved that 'monster' black hole M87 is spinning — confirming Einstein’s relativity yet againAstronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the 'monster' black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.
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For the 1st time, scientists accidentally measure the swirling ring around a black holeResearchers accidentally stumbled on a way to measure the size of the accretion disks of dust, gas and plasma that surround black holes.
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Supermassive black hole found spitting a giant, high-energy jet toward EarthNASA has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is located 400 million light-years away.
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Strange 'echo' from the Milky Way's central black hole reveals it briefly awoke 200 years agoThe Milky Way's black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, briefly flared at least a million times brighter 200 years ago.
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Behold the first direct image of a supermassive black hole spewing a jet of particlesThe first complete image of a black hole and its jet has captured a never-before-seen view of how the cosmic monster traps and spits out matter.
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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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A mysterious object is being sucked into our galaxy's black hole. Now, we may know what it is.A strange blob has been seen rapidly circling our galaxy's central black hole. Now, astronomers have identified it as the exploded debris from two merging stars.
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Black hole discovered after ripping a star to piecesThe event could help astronomers figure out how supermassive black holes are born
