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NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core.

A supermassive black hole 17 billion times the sun’s mass consumes the equivalent of one sun per day and shines 500 trillion ...

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Astronomers with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) made history in 2019 by producing the first image of a black hole. The ...

Astronomers have discovered the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, revealing that a black hole literally consumed a star ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

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For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two ...