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The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

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JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

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It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...