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Gluttonous Black Holes Eat Faster Than Thought. Does That Explain Quasars?


At the heart of large galaxies like our Milky Way, there resides a supermassive black hole (SMBH.) These behemoths draw stars, gas, and dust toward them with their irresistible gravitational pull. When they consume this material, there's a bright flare of energy, the brightest of which are quasars.

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