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Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole.

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.

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The black hole M87* pictured with a gigantic jet of material streaming from it.

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.

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A telescope image of three galaxies swirling around one another as they collide, with a bright orange burst of radiation at the center

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.

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An image of the distant blob, X7, circling our Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

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.

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An artist's illustration of a black hole shredding a star.

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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The orbit of the newly discovered rapid hot spot around Sagittarius A* superimposed on top of the first image of the supermassive black hole captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration.

Superhot blob of gas discovered orbiting Milky Way's black hole at 'mind-blowing' velocity

By Harry Baker published

Astronomers have detected an X-ray flare from a blob of superhot gas orbiting Sagittarius A* at 30% the speed of light.

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Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole.

Do black holes explode?

By Paul Sutter published

Black holes go boom in several ways.

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The Milky Way and the location of its central black hole as viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.

1st image of our galaxy's 'black hole heart' unveiled

By Ben Turner published

The enormous black hole is four million times the mass of our sun

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An artist's impression of a transitioning red quasar -- a bright, compact object shrouded in clouds of red dust

Ultra-rare black hole ancestor detected at the dawn of the universe

By Brandon Specktor published

Scientists 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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An artist's impression of dark matter in the beginning of the universe.

We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking's most far-out ideas

By Paul Sutter published

The recently launched James Webb Telescope should help determine if dark matter is made up of primordial black holes.

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