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Researchers made a fascinating discovery at the heart of our galaxy: "strange filaments" driving a cycle of gas emissions and replenishment.

Scientists Detect “Strange Filaments” at the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted evidence that a distant star has wrapped itself around a supermassive black hole, a process known as "spaghettification."

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Scientist Spot Star That’s Been Stretched Out and Wrapped Around a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of finding one big black hole at the center of a cluster of 250,000 stars, a pair of astronomers found evidence of a school of smaller black holes.

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Astronomers Find Five Dozen Baby Black Holes in Distant Psychotic Chaos Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.

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A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a distant galaxy without its accompanying supermassive black hole — despite its enormous suspected mass.

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A Supermassive Black Hole Is Missing, NASA Says

By Victor Tangermann

American astronomer Andrea Ghez just won this year's Nobel prize in physics for her groundbreaking work on black holes, only the fourth woman to do so.

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Nobel Prize Winner on Falling Into a Black Hole: “I Would Not Want To”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.

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Astronomers Spot Galaxies “Trapped” by Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

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Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have observed that two bubbles around the center of the Milky Way are spitting out clusters of cold molecular gas "like bullets."

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Astronomers Detect “Bullets” of Gas Shooting Out of Our Galactic Center

By Victor Tangermann

After the first-ever image of a black hole, we now have the ultimate follow-up: a video of a supermassive black hole spewing out jets of particles.

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Scientists Release Incredible Video of Black Hole Spewing Matter

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have discovered the biggest ever explosion observed in the universe since the Big Bang.

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Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

A group of scientists are suggesting that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are surrounded by, and devour, much smaller "baby black holes."

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Baby Black Holes May be Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, the center of the Milky Way galaxy exploded in a huge flare-up of hot gas. And an explosion might explode again in the future.

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3.5 Million Years Ago, Our Galaxy Was Rocked by an Explosion

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

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NASA’s New Black Hole Simulation Will Completely Melt Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers observed the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A* flare up growing 75 times brighter than usual.

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The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Just Did Something Wild

By Victor Tangermann