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The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

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New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

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In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.