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The Sciences

Four New Gravitational Wave Detections Announced, Including Most Massive Event Yet

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How We Discovered the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

Many galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers. 

What Is A Blazar? It's Like Staring Down The Barrel Of A Black Hole

Blazars are active supermassive black holes sucking in immense amounts of material, which form swirling accretion disks and generate high-powered particle jets

Black Hole Ghost Particle Caught Striking Earth

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Quasars Shine Light on Universe’s Mysterious Energy Signals

Black Hole Prediction - Roen Kelly/Discover

The First Close-Up View of a Black Hole

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Imaging a Black Hole’s Shadow

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No Such Thing as a Black Hole?

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The Hand and Eye Behind "The Theory of Everything"

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A Black Hole Close-Up, and a Telescope as Big as the World

How Black Holes Are Like Whirlpools

The Secret History of Cosmic Buzzwords

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