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Extremely Rare Black Hole Type Caught Snacking On A Star 450 Million Light-Years AwayA Hubble Space Telescope image of a pair of galaxies: NGC 6099 (lower left) and NGC 6098 (upper right). The purple blob depicts X-ray emission from a compact star cluster hiding an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a star.

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Extremely Rare Black Hole Type Caught Snacking On A Star 450 Million Light-Years AwayA Hubble Space Telescope image of a pair of galaxies: NGC 6099 (lower left) and NGC 6098 (upper right). The purple blob depicts X-ray emission from a compact star cluster hiding an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a star.
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Extremely Rare Black Hole Type Caught Snacking On A Star 450 Million Light-Years Away

clock-iconJuly 28, 2025
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Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our GalaxyA black hole is seen as a black semispher and around it it's a colorful stream of wispy clouds.

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Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our GalaxyA black hole is seen as a black semispher and around it it's a colorful stream of wispy clouds.
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Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our Galaxy

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The Closest Black Hole To Us Is Not The One In The Center Of Our GalaxyThe remnant galactic nucleus known as Omega Centauri has a black hole at its heart, revealed by fast moving stars in the box at its heart.

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The Closest Black Hole To Us Is Not The One In The Center Of Our GalaxyThe remnant galactic nucleus known as Omega Centauri has a black hole at its heart, revealed by fast moving stars in the box at its heart.
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The Closest Black Hole To Us Is Not The One In The Center Of Our Galaxy

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Crowded Star Cluster Explains The Strangest Gravitational Wave Yet FoundNGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. A cluster like this full of massive hot stars could be rich in black holes, which might explain the strangest gravitational wave we have found. Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA)

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Crowded Star Cluster Explains The Strangest Gravitational Wave Yet FoundNGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. A cluster like this full of massive hot stars could be rich in black holes, which might explain the strangest gravitational wave we have found. Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (STScI/ESA)
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Crowded Star Cluster Explains The Strangest Gravitational Wave Yet Found

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Star Shredded To Death, Revealing Hidden Black HoleIllustration depicting a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked into a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Star Shredded To Death, Revealing Hidden Black HoleIllustration depicting a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked into a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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Star Shredded To Death, Revealing Hidden Black Hole

clock-iconNovember 11, 2022
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How Did Supermassive Black Holes Form So Quickly In The Universe?article image

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How Did Supermassive Black Holes Form So Quickly In The Universe?article image
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How Did Supermassive Black Holes Form So Quickly In The Universe?

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