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New observations of the center of our galaxy have, for the first time, revealed hotspots in the disk of chaotic gas orbiting our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
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Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.
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How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
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While we still don't know how supermassive black holes get as heavy and large as they are, but we have a few ideas...
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Astronomers are trying to zero in on the largest mass for a stellar black hole and found a monster larger and hungrier than they expected.
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Astronomers weigh a black hole so massive, it wasn't born from an imploding star but from massive nebulae crushed by its own gravity.