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03/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Super-sized black holes observed rapidly expanding, engulfing entire galaxies

The nightmarish growth of all-devouring super-massive black holes (SMBH) is fueled by the amount of stellar mass in their host-galaxy, reported a Cornell University (CU) research study. The more stars there are, the faster and bigger they grow, rather akin to interstellar parasites. Earlier studies have proposed that SMBH grow in relation to the combined […]

04/04/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

NASA reveals “supermassive” black holes are cruising through space at five million miles an hour

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole blazing its way through space at a speed of approximately five million miles an hour. At this speed, it could cover the distance between the moon and the Earth in only three minutes (as a reference, Apollo missions take around three days to reach the moon. The fastest […]

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