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Star eating black hole spotted by Hubble and Chandra

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have collaborated to identify a potential example of an elusive category of black holes. Known as NGC 6099 HLX-1, this luminous X-ray source appears to be located within a compact star cluster on the outskirts of a massive ellipti...

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Black hole moving spotted by Hubble

Monday, May 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found “Space Jaws.” Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any wayward star that plummets toward it. The sneaky black hole b...

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