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Black Hole “Hiccups” – Astronomers Stunned by Periodic Outbursts in Far-Off Galaxy


Analysis reveals a tiny black hole repeatedly punching through a larger black hole’s disk of gas. At the heart of a far-off galaxy, a supermassive black hole appears to have had a case of the hiccups. Astronomers from MIT, Italy, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere have found that a previously q

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