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Astronomers Find Actively Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 12.8 Billion Light-Years Away


A supermassive black hole in the center of the radio quasar RACS J032021.44-352104.1 (RACS J0320-35 for short) is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to an analysis of radio and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Australian Large Baseline Array.

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