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The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole
By Benjamin Gompertz, Dheeraj Pasham & Muryel Guolo
Rare cosmic event beamed light at Earth from 8.5 billion light-years away
By Ashley Strickland
Astronomers See a Star's Final Scream Into a Black Hole Halfway Across The Universe
Super-distant black hole is eating half a sun a year and blasting its leftovers at Earth
By Robert Lea
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Formerly TwitterNASA Webb Telescope
NASAWebb
This #BlackHoleWeek, we're pulled in by the farthest active supermassive black hole ever spotted. Webb's image shows the black hole's host: GN-z11, a galaxy that existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old. More: go.nasa.gov/4dujNS2 pic.twitter.com/n4NYvP7gzt
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ESO
ESO
#BlackHoleWeek Day 3! ⚫🌌
What’s the hungriest #BlackHole we’ve ever detected? How about the one eating one entire Sun per day 😨 and powering the most luminous object ever observed? ✨
Meet J0529-4351! 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFvPcgMnuQ
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LIGO
LIGO
Gravitational-waves provide a unique way to study black holes
This Orrery (by @actualdrdoctor) illustrates the diverse black hole binaries and neutron star black–hole binaries from our O3b run. More massive binaries are shown as orbiting more slowly
#BlackHoleWeek pic.twitter.com/bO3PbNDY32
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NASA Universe
NASAUniverse
#TBT to Karl Jansky’s accidental discovery of radio emission from the heart of our galaxy, which was widely publicized this week in 1933. This kicked off the field of radio astronomy, and we now know our galactic center houses a supermassive black hole. #BlackHoleWeek pic.twitter.com/iqJOL8bNbG
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Supermassive black hole devours a star, blasts its remains at Earth
By Lawrence Richard
Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say
By Jennifer Chu
A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
By Erica Hammerstein, Suvi Gezari & Armin Rest