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Supermassive black holes may create conditions akin to "cosmic intersections with failed traffic lights" that make collisions between smaller stellar-mass black holes inevitable.
A black hole may be punching through the disk of gas and dust surrounding a supermassive black hole, causing its giant neighbor to "hiccup."
Astronomers have discovered a quasar that remained hidden for over the years is the brightest ever, powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered that eats a sun every day.
Astronomers have discovered the most luminous object ever detected, a quasar 12 billion light-years away that's 500 trillion times more luminous than the sun.
The quasar is more than 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun and the supermassive black hole at its center has a massive appetite, eating equivalent of the mass of the Sun every day.