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Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

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After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

They have uncovered evidence that points to a massive black hole that spent ages in a “quiet” phase when everything around it in the early universe roared with activity. Scientists studying cosmic ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...

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