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Rare intermediate-mass black hole caught devouring star in distant galaxy

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

Yes, It’s Possible to Safely Jump Into a Black Hole, Scientists Say

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...
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JWST finds unusual black hole in the center of the Infinity Galaxy: 'How can we make sense of this?'

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

Webb spots 'Infinity Galaxy' that sheds light on black hole formation

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...