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As #BlackHoleWeek closes, here's the most distant supermassive black hole ever detected in X-rays. Webb revealed the black hole's host galaxy existed 470 million years after the big bang, while @chandraxray confirmed the existence of the black hole: go.nasa.gov/4bzilwe pic.twitter.com/ggUatcu8Rf

#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

#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

A star torn apart by a black hole sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it does happen. However, it is rare, occurring just once every 10,000 to 100,000 years in a galaxy the size of our Milky Way. These are called tidal disruption events. #BlackHoleWeek 🧵1/5 pic.twitter.com/vrxzjVNMKz