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How do you activate a supermassive black hole? A galaxy merger should do the trick

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

Black hole ejects matter at 20% light speed in sun-like magnetic event

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...
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Euclid telescope shows merging galaxies are prime triggers for black hole outbursts

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

What NASA says would happen if Earth got too close to a black hole

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...

It's the JWST's turn to look for an intermediate mass black hole

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...
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Astronomers capture black hole flare triggering ultrafast cosmic wind for 1st time: Study

Research records wind blasting out at 19% speed of light as X-ray burst from supermassive black hole rapidly igniting ...

Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow it up

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
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Two black holes collide while being pulled into another nearby supermassive black hole for the first time ever observed

In 2019, researchers detected gravitational waves that indicated that two black holes were merging. These were two fairly ...