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Feeding supermassive black holes are more common than thought across the universe

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an accreting supermassive black hole."

Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving these energetic outbursts.

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First Infrared Flare-Up Detected From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should worry us. It does flare up though,

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Supermassive black hole spotted 12.9 billion light-years from Earth — and it's shooting a beam of energy right at us

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

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A strange black hole is acting even stranger

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

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Mysterious black hole starts flashing – and scientists don’t know why

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

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Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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Supermassive black hole equal to 700 million suns' mass spotted firing a giant beam at Earth

Astronomers discover a supermassive black hole, weighing 700 million suns, firing a giant energy beam directly at Earth from ...

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Astronomers observe X-ray flashes from a nearby supermassive black hole that accelerate mysteriously

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise ...

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'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

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