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Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

9 October 2017

Active Galactic Nuclei occur when a black hole devours a cloud of gas and dust and shines really brightly. Now one has been seen doing it twice
Model of universe structure

Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

9 October 2017

About half the normal matter in our universe had never been observed – until now. Two teams have finally seen it by combining millions of faint images into one

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