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While scientists think that most galaxies have a giant black hole at their centers, until now no one knew that one of these beasts resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that's ...

What happens when a gargantuan cloud of gas swallows a pair of monster black holes with their own appetites? Feasting on the gas can cause some weird (heavenly) bodily functions. AT 2021hdr is a ...

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. The stream of gas stretching to the right is what remains of a star that was pulled apart by the black hole. A cloud of hot ...

For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole — one with no star orbiting it. It’s “the only one so far,” says Kailash Sahu, an astronomer at the Space ...

The other half seemed to be linked to a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a neighboring dwarf galaxy thought to be orbiting the Milky Way. An artist’s ...

Most galaxies are thought to have such a black hole at their core, but this represents the first evidence for one within the Large Magellanic Cloud. Sign up here. According to the researchers ...