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5 months agoBlack Hole Caught Blasting Matter into Space at 130 Million MPH
Supermassive black holes are the monsters of the universe, so it is perhaps only fitting that astronomers discovered one of these behemoths unleashing a bright x-ray flare that one of the researchers, astronomer Matteo Guainazzi, described as almost too big to imagine in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. Within hours of erupting, the blast faded, and the black hole began to whip up winds more powerful than anything we can imagine on Earth