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We've just discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever. And boy, is it one massive infant!

Utilizing data from the James Webb Space Telescope, it was revealed that this black hole emerged ju…

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A bizarre galaxy NASA spotted at the edge of the universe could upend what we know about supermassive black holes

A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…

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A mysterious star from outside the Milky Way has somehow ended up near our galaxy's supermassive black hole

Star SO-6 is very close to Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But it's …

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Black holes mysteriously burp up fragments of stars they destroyed years earlier, and scientists have no idea why

Up to half of black holes studied burped up star remnants years after tearing them apart. The resea…

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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time

Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…

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Scientists might reveal the first photo of our galaxy's central black hole on Thursday. Watch their announcement live.

Seven research institutions are holding simultaneous press conferences to announce what's being bil…

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Artificial intelligence may have just given astronomers a better idea of what black holes really look like

A machine learning algorithm created by researchers seems to have provided a clearer image of the M…

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James Webb Space Telescope spots a supermassive black hole in the early universe, much sooner after the Big Bang than scientists can explain

NASA's Webb telescope spotted an active supermassive black hole that existed 570 million years afte…

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NASA released an audio clip of a black hole, and it's pretty spooky

Black holes push waves of pressure through the galaxies around them. It can sound like a wailing al…

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Supermassive black holes grew from mysterious ‘seeds’ that are yet to be found

Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in outer space whose origins continue to perplex…

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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the size of the sun, spewing out jets of plasma

Astronomers hope the discovery will help us understand exactly how these jets are created — s…

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The first-ever supermassive black hole to be captured on camera has a wobbly shadow

Now, using data that spans back over a decade, data collected from the project shows that the sh…

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Scientists detect light behind a black hole for the first time, proving Einstein's Theory

In 2017, astronomers took a giant leap by capturing the first-ever image of the darkest object i…

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This year's black hole photography gets called off due to coronavirus concerns

Since it’s unlikely that the pandemic will end by then, Event Horizon Telescope believes tha…

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Supermassive black hole is eating meals worth four Moons thrice a day

In fact, the phenomenon was so unprecedented that scientists had to coin a new phrase for it —…

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A rare trio of supermassive black holes spotted as three galaxies collide

Located a billion light years away from Earth, the collision doesn't pose any threat to th…

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Two massive bubbles stretch 700 light years above and below the center of the Milky Way

One of the largest features ever seen, has been spotted right at the center of our very own galaxy,…

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New stars running from the death of their own galaxies means our Milky Way might survive

These stars are migrant refugees fleeing from their own dwarf galaxies — known as Magellanic Clo…

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SpaceX launched a $214 million NASA satellite into orbit to study black holes and dead stars

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 r…

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The ‘fuzzy’ photo of the black hole could soon be sharp as a knife

The satellites would have telescopes on board and since all of this is up in space — the t…