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Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

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New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

During a press conference at the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Devesh Nandal from the Center ...

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QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.