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X-ray spacecraft detects the 36-million-degree 'breath' of an ancient black hole


"We believe we have identified a phase in its life in which cold gas falls towards the gravitational potential of this massive halo and is heated by gravitational shocks, reaching temperatures of about 36 million degrees Fahrenheit."

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