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Topic: Black Hole

This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole - and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Black hole "starving" galaxy to death

Matthew Rozsa
X7 location relative to the supermassive black hole (Anna Ciurlo/UCLA)

The cloud at the center of the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
In this handout photo provided by NASA, This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. (NASA Via Getty Images)

First image of our galaxy's black hole

Matthew Rozsa
mage of the Kinman Dwarf galaxy, also known as PHL 293B, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2011, before the disappearance of the massive star. Located some 75 million light-years away, the galaxy is too far away for astronomers to clearly resolve its individual stars, but in observations done between 2001 and 2011, they detected the signatures of the massive star. These signatures were not present in more recent data. (NASA/ESA/Hubble/J. Andrews/University of Arizona))

A giant star disappears without a trace

Nicole Karlis
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(Getty/Cappan)

Scientists to reveal black hole image

Nicole Karlis
Illustration of a newly discovered black hole named MAXI J1820+070. (Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

What a black hole looks like

Nicole Karlis

End of summer's hottest books

Teddy Wayne
"An artist's impression of a quasar with a supermassive black hole in the distant universe," from the University of Arizona (Zhaoyu Li/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Misti Mountain Observatory)

Sarah Gray
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(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Sarah Gray
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