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Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA Telescopes

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A rapidly feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy in the early universe, shown in this artist’s concept, may hold important clues to the evolution of supermassive black holes in general. Using data from NASA’s James Webb…

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Two black holes are illustrated orbiting in a cloud of gas.

NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes

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Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy. “It’s a very weird event,…

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A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

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NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources. The…

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