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The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

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It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

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Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...