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Two spiral galaxies, tethered by the gravitational pull of supermassive black holes at their centers, have collided in space and kicked up a massive cloud of hot dense gas.
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A new study shows that supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are growing at a much faster rate than thought. The study suggests SMBHs do not grow primarily by galactic mergers as previously thought but by absorbing matter piecemeal.
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A supermassive black hole has been caught red-handed in its interstellar homicide of a star that wandered too close. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope brought forth evidence of the star's remains.
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Two studies are researching a supermassive black hole that devoured a star that ventured too close to the monster. The star was one million times the mass of our sun and light from the ordeal took 3.9 billion years to reach Earth.
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Astronomers at the University of Maryland have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water in the universe. It's a 12-billion-year-old cloud located near a supermassive black hole and contains 140 trillion times more water than Earth's oceans.
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Which existed first — galaxies or the supermassive black holes at their centers? European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers have observed evidence that black holes precede, give birth to and merge with their host galaxies.
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This image was taken with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Ellipses indicate light echoes.
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