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Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

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Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...