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For the 1st time, scientists accidentally measure the swirling ring around a black hole
By Harry Baker published
Researchers accidentally stumbled on a way to measure the size of the accretion disks of dust, gas and plasma that surround black holes.

Supermassive black hole found spitting a giant, high-energy jet toward Earth
By Robert Lea published
NASA 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.

Strange 'echo' from the Milky Way's central black hole reveals it briefly awoke 200 years ago
By Ben Turner published
The Milky Way's black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, briefly flared at least a million times brighter 200 years ago.

Behold the first direct image of a supermassive black hole spewing a jet of particles
By Ben Turner published
The 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.

Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universe
By Robert Lea published
Scientists 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.

A mysterious object is being sucked into our galaxy's black hole. Now, we may know what it is.
By Ben Turner published
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.

Black hole discovered after ripping a star to pieces
By Ben Turner published
The event could help astronomers figure out how supermassive black holes are born
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